Des sénateurs américains contestent une enquête du géant bancaire sur des comptes nazis.

Nazi accounts » US senators challenge a giant bank investigation into Nazi accounts.

A two-year investigation by Credit Suisse disputes claims that many Nazis in Argentina had accounts with the ancestor of this bank, but US senators are challenging the way the research was conducted.

In 2020, the Simon Wiesenthal Center for Anti-Semitism and Racism established a list of 12,000 Nazis living in Argentina, suspecting many of them had accounts at Schweizerische Kreditanstalt (SKA), the former name of Credit Suisse.

At its request, Credit Suisse agreed to conduct an investigation into its archives and commissioned AlixPartners to conduct research. A team of 50 people examined around 480,000 documents for a total of 50,000 hours of work, the bank quantified on Tuesday evening.

“The investigators found no evidence to support the allegations of the Simon Wiesenthal Center that many individuals on a list of 12,000 people in Argentina had accounts at Schweizerische Kreditanstalt (SKA), the bank that preceded Credit Suisse, during the Nazi period,” the statement said.

The investigation also found no evidence that eight long-closed accounts contained Holocaust victim assets, according to the statement.

But a special US Senate committee accuses the bank of “limiting the scope of internal searches” and “leaving blind spots” in its investigation.

In addition, the work was originally overseen by an independent mediator, but Credit Suisse “unexplainably” terminated its collaboration with him during the investigation, the committee blasted. ATS/AFP