ZIEGLER Jean, MÜHLHOFF Uwe

Heren van de misdaad. Een schokkend verhaal: worden de Europese democratieën ondermijnd door toedoen van maffia en drugsbaronnen? Jean Ziegler onthult het samentrekkende netwerk van de georganiseerde misdaad. (vertaling van Les seigneurs du crime : les nouvelles mafias contre la démocratie - 1998)

Pb, in-8, 264 pp. Bibliografische noten. JZ (°Switzerland, 1934). In 1997, Ziegler alleged that Swiss banking officials were lying to protect the assets of Mobutu Sese Seko, former President of Zaire (now Congo). Ziegler said, "This is grotesque... This is a financial empire and it is here in Switzerland." In 1994 he had already proposed to the Swiss parliament to confiscate the finances of Mobutu and give it back to the country after the end of Mobutu's dictatorship, but his proposal was declined. He also criticized the Swiss banks in connection with the dormant accounts scandal. According to Ziegler, his "defense of the interests of Jewish communities in their claims against Swiss banks earned him acclaim in the United States and in Israel," while he faced attacks and court procedures in Switzerland as a result of this work. In 1998, he testified before Senator Alfonse D'Amato's hearing on the assets of Holocaust victims by the US Senate Banking Committee, against the Swiss banks and in support of the claims of the World Jewish Congress. His book The Swiss, the Gold and the Dead: How Swiss Bankers Helped Finance the Nazi War Machine was published in America in 1998. (bron: wiki)

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