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Switzerland: A Haven for Russian Money?
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Switzerland: A Haven for Russian Money?

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Swiss private banks have long marketed discretion as their signature product, and this film asks what that discretion has meant since sanctions were imposed on wealthy Russians after the invasion of Ukraine. Reporters trace a network of shadow bankers, intermediaries, and asset managers who move money and property on behalf of sanctioned clients, following leads through Geneva and Zurich's private banking corridors. Interviews with financial transparency investigators and former banking insiders lay out the mechanics: shell companies, nominee ownership, and the legal gray zones that let a name disappear from a bank's paperwork while the money stays put. The film weighs Switzerland's official position, that it enforces EU-aligned sanctions, against evidence that enforcement has been slow and selective, and asks who benefits from that gap. It is a straightforward piece of financial journalism, more concerned with paper trails and named institutions than with drama, and it leaves open how much of Russia's sanctioned wealth actually left the country's banks at all.