A committee of U.S. lawmakers has accused Credit Suisse of obstructing a multiyear investigation into the servicing of potential Nazi-linked accounts. The Swiss bank had commissioned an

internal investigation following allegations from a human rights organisation, but the Senate committee found it had hampered the probe and terminated an independent reviewer overseeing it.

Credit Suisse, however, defended its internal review, stating that it had found no evidence to support key claims that dormant accounts serviced by the bank held assets from Holocaust victims. The Senate committee has said more work is needed to trace the value of assets held by Nazis at the bank in the post-1945 period. Photo by James Steakley, Wikimedia commons.