Massive Credit Suisse leak reportedly reveals possible criminal ties among 18,000 accounts

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : For much of the past decade, the Zurich-based financial giant has moved from one crisis to another as it came to terms with its role in helping clients launder ill-gotten funds, shelter assets from taxation and aid in corruption.
46% : "Our investigation exposes how these people can bypass regulation despite their crimes, to the detriment of democracies and people all over the world."While Swiss banks, world-renowned for the country's strict secrecy laws protecting clients, aren't supposed to accept money linked to criminal activity, the law is mostly unenforced, according to The New York Times, which cited a former head of Switzerland's anti-money laundering agency.

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