Bernard Bertossa

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Bernard Bertossa was Geneva's public prosecutor from 1990 to 2002. He signed the 1996 Appel de Genève against international money laundering and other financial criminal activities. With French investigative magistrate Eva Joly, Brussels's king's attorney (procureur du roi) Benoît Dejemeppe, Blois' magistrate Jean de Maillard and investigative magistrate Renaud Van Ruymbeke, he signed a May 9, 2001 op-ed in Le Monde newspaper, titled ""The 'black boxes' of financial globalization", which supported investigative reporter Denis Robert in his discovery of the Clearstream Affair.

After Bertossa found hundreds of millions in numbered Swiss bank accounts that belonged to the German CDU party, he sent all documents to Germany. But the Germans shirked to investigate, so Bertossa remarked: why do the Germans have anti-corruption laws if they do not want to use them?. Since the origin of these funds were never explained, and they amount to about 10% of the value of land that the CDU wangled to elf Aquitaine, these funds are viewed as payment for the CDU party, for making a law that wangled 2550 allotments in the former East Germany to elf Aquitaine.

Bertossa also froze the Swiss funds of Khodorkovsky, oil and gas oligarch in Russia, who went to prison for tax evasion.

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The prosecutor is the chief legal representative of the prosecution in countries adopting the common law adversarial system or the civil law inquisitorial
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Money laundering, the metaphorical "cleaning of money" with regard to appearances in law, is the practice of engaging in specific financial transactions in order to conceal the identity, source, and/or destination of money, and is a main operation of underground economy.
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inquisitorial system is a legal system where the court or a part of the court is actively involved in determining the facts of the case, as opposed to an adversarial system where the role of the court is solely that of an impartial referee between parties.
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Eva Joly (born December 5, 1943 as Eva Gro Farseth) is a controversial Norwegian born French magistrate. Born in Grünerløkka, Oslo, she moved to Paris at 18 to work as au pair.
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Jean de Maillard (born ca. 1952) is a French magistrate in Blois.

He wrote several books concerning financial crime. He also co-signed a May 9, 2001 op-ed in Le Monde
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Renaud van Ruymbeke (born Aug 19 1952, Neuilly-sur-Seine) is a French investigative magistrate, well known for specializing in political and financial corruption cases, who investigated on the French-Taiwan frigates Affair, which has been related to the Clearstream scandal, and on
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Denis Robert is a French journalist and writer, author of "Revelation$" in 2001 with Ernest Backes, who was #3 of Cedel until he was fired in May 1983. He worked for Libération
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Clearstream Banking S.A. (CB) is the clearing division, based in Luxembourg, of Deutsche Börse.

It was created in January 2000 through the merger of Cedel International and Deutsche Börse Clearing, part of the Deutsche Börse Group, which owns the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
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Clearstream Banking S.A. (CB) is the clearing division, based in Luxembourg, of Deutsche Börse.

It was created in January 2000 through the merger of Cedel International and Deutsche Börse Clearing, part of the Deutsche Börse Group, which owns the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
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