Bernard Bertossa

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Bernard Bertossa was Geneva's public prosecutor from 1990 to 2002. He signed the 1996 Appel de Genève against international money laundering and other financial criminal activities. With French investigative magistrate Eva Joly, Brussels's king's attorney (procureur du roi) Benoît Dejemeppe, Blois' magistrate Jean de Maillard and investigative magistrate Renaud Van Ruymbeke, he signed a May 9, 2001 op-ed in Le Monde newspaper, titled ""The 'black boxes' of financial globalization", which supported investigative reporter Denis Robert in his discovery of the Clearstream Affair.

After Bertossa found hundreds of millions in numbered Swiss bank accounts that belonged to the German CDU party, he sent all documents to Germany. But the Germans shirked to investigate, so Bertossa remarked: why do the Germans have anti-corruption laws if they do not want to use them?. Since the origin of these funds were never explained, and they amount to about 10% of the value of land that the CDU wangled to elf Aquitaine, these funds are viewed as payment for the CDU party, for making a law that wangled 2550 allotments in the former East Germany to elf Aquitaine.

Bertossa also froze the Swiss funds of Khodorkovsky, oil and gas oligarch in Russia, who went to prison for tax evasion.