In the fight against dirty money, the anti-money laundering authority FIU was long considered a total failure. A new boss should now fix it. But he first has to digest the fact that an employee has probably passed on information to criminals.
As the new head of the anti-money laundering authority Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), Daniel Thelesklaf could not have known what legacy his predecessor would leave behind. But could the Swiss imagine that organized crime had a foot in the agency’s door? According to a report by the Picture on Sunday An FIU employee is said to have passed on confidential information to a criminal clan for months. There was already a raid on the FIU in Cologne-Ossendorf in March 2023, during which customs investigators from Hamburg took the accused away.