ZURICH (Reuters)
- Swiss lawmakers on Wednesday voted to relax strict
secrecy laws to make it easier to liquidate unclaimed accounts held in
Swiss banks, a major step forward in efforts to deal with wealth hidden
by Jews from the Nazis during the Second World War. Though Switzerland's
UBS and Credit Suisse reached a $1.25 billion deal with Holocaust
survivors and their descendants in 1998, the Swiss government has spent
years attempting to amend banking secrecy laws to try to deal with
unclaimed accounts.
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