Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize winner for economics, attacks Switzerland’s “hypocritical position”. They earn money from corruption and money laundering. Whistleblowers and the media who reveal this should therefore be protected.
With their latest revelation, the Suisse Secrets, numerous international media are continuing the work they have already done with the publication of the Panama Papers and the Paradise Papers. Every time journalists lift the curtain of secrecy over the financial sector, we better understand why secrecy is so important. Each time, a web of corruption and nefarious behavior is revealed. Unsurprisingly, this network features an above-average number of shady customers and families of dictators, but also a smaller number of seemingly respectable politicians from democracies.