Jews to `attack' Swiss secrecy

Tuesday 26 November 1996 00:02 GMT

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The World Jewish Congress said it planned to "attack" Swiss bank secrecy in search of the unclaimed wealth of Holocaust victims. The former US Federal Reserve Board chairman Paul Volcker, heading a commission investigating Swiss banks' co-operation with the Nazis, was briefing a WJC meeting on commission strategy. The preliminary search is to last six months and be followed by an entire audit of 450 Swiss banks, which will take another 12 months.

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