SWITZERLAND
1 August 1291 – Switzerland gained freedom from its former
mother country, the Holy Roman Empire. (Ancestry July August 2007).
1365 – Basel. Timeline of earthquakes.
6 Oct 1849 – A duel near Lausane Switzerland. Sergeant
Bochot the Socialist rep for Paris and
a Spanish officer for the regent of Isabell Segunda. London news UK.
1876 – The future of archives. In 1876 Switzerland changed
over from church registers to civil registration. Some church registers have
been microfilmed LDS. (Practical family history august 2009).
1890s – A Verdingkind or contract child in Switzerland. Sex
slavery and concubines, comfort women. (New York Times 11 Nov 2014).
12 Aug 1893 – Switzerland. Daily Telegraph. Papers Past NZ.
8 Feb 1919 – Berne Socialist conference. Colonist. Papers
Past NZ.
10 Feb 1919 – Berne Socialist conference. Colonist. Papers
Past NZ.
1930 – Lawyers, Sullivan and Cromwell was headed by John
Foster Dulles. Allen Dulles, future head of the CIA, was a partner. Bank for
the international settlements BIS, was set up in Switzerland in 1930, to
channel war reparations between the US and Germany. Gold looted by the Nazis in
Europe ended up in BIS vaults. (The untold story of the US. Oliver Stone ©2012
US).
13 March 1930 – Spies in Switzerland. The Manchester
Guardian 1901-1959 UK.
28 March 1930 – Italian spies in Switzerland 8 men expelled
consul position in question. The Manchester Guardian 1901-1958 UK.
July 1937 – Swiss sanitorium, after July 1937. Foreign
patients did not register and the records of the main sanitorium at Danos and
Leysin were destroyed. (Too secret too long. Chapman Pincher ©1984 US).
1943 – Alexander Rado in Switzerland was part of the Red
Orchestra, a GRU spy network. It was broken up by Swiss police in 1943. (The hidden
hand. Richard J Aldrich ©2001 UK).
May 1954 – Geneva peace conference sought a settlement to
the wars in Korea and Vietnam. Set up the Int control commission in Vietnam
observers. (GCHQ Richard J Aldrich ©2010 UK).
1955 – LDS President David McKay dedicated the Bern
Switzerland temple. (Presidents of the church LDS book).
18 February 1969 – Gunfire attack on El Al Airliner in
Zurich. One person was killed and four jailed. Three were freed after the 6
September 1970 attacks.
21 February 1970 – The Popular Front for the Liberation of
Palestine blew up a SwissAir Convair airliner, leaving Zurich for Tel Aviv,
killing 47 people.
20 June 1975 – Couple on trial for spying in Switzerland.
The Times London UK.
23 June 1975 – Swiss imprison East German spies for 7 years.
The Times London UK.
1976 – Banque de commerce et de placements BCP a BCCI
affiliate opened in Geneva.
1976 – One of the main BCCI operations in Europe was Banque
de Commerce et de placements, SA a joint venture in Switzerland. It was formed
in 1976 in partnership with other financial institutions including the Union
bank of Switzerland.
13 Sept 1982 – Juerg Heer the executive director of the
credit section of Zurich Rothschild bank, Transfers from Calvi’s Luxemberg
subsidiary to Gelli to corporate shell in Panama called Bell atrix. Loans of
$142 million. On 13 Sept 1982 Gelli was arrested in Switzerland. (The annals of
unsolved crime EJ Epstein ©2012 US).
1984 – Safety in numbers. The mysterious world of Swiss
banking. Nicholas Faith. London UK Hamish Hamilton.
1988 – Zuricher union bank in Zurich opened an account and
obtained a safe deposit box. Swiss banks safe deposit boxes. Banking secrecy
laws in Switzerland and the Canasta player investigation. (Traitors among us
©1999 SA Herrington).
1990 – Switzerland launders whiter. Book Worldcat database.
J Ziegler. West Germany. Money laundering from drug cartels.
29 Nov 1998 – Herald Journal. Prosecutors move against
Russian mafia in Switzerland. By Naomi Koppel. AP. Geneva..Trial of Russia
businessman Sergei Milhailov. Major Swiss.
1 Dec 1998 – Swiss put Russian mafia boss on trial. Peter
Capella. The Guardian 1959-2003 UK.
7 November 2001 – Raid of a villa in Campione. Youssef Nada, director of the Al-Taqwa bank of
Lugano, who had an active association with the Muslim Brotherhood for more than
50 years. He admitted to being one of the Muslim Brotherhood’s international
leaders. The raid was conducted by Swiss law enforcement at the request of the
US White House. A crackdown on terrorist finances in the aftermath of 9/11. US
Swiss investigators were looking into Al-Taqwa involvement in money laundering
and funding Islamic terrorist groups, like al-Qaeda, Hamas, Algerian GIA and
Tunisian Ennehdah. (Frontpage mag The Muslim Brotherhood project. Patrick Poole
11 May 2006).
3 June 2006 – Swiss sex industry is thriving. Prostitution
is legal in Switzerland and generates $2.65 billion annually. Sex slavery.
9 October 2006 – In Geneva the UN declares an end to a
security alert. There was a possible threat to the European HQ of the UN and
its agencies.
26 January 2007 – Dual strategy for countering forced
prostitution.( sex slavery), It was held
at the UEFA Euro in 2008. Federal office of police. Berne Fedpol.
7 December 2007 – Disappearances of newborn babies for
illegal adoption in Europe. Social health and family affairs committee Ms Ruth
Gaby Vermont Mangold. Trafficking in children. child sex slavery and child
pornography. Disappearance of newborn babies, children found begging in the
streets. Eastern Europe to western Europe.
2008 – The state owned Chinese oil company Sinopec spent
$7.2 billion to buy the Swiss oil field exploration company Addax petroleum,
which has reserves in Nigeria, Gabon and Iraq. (The shadow market Eric J Weiner
©2010).
2009 – KGB money laundering in Geneva and the credit suisse
bank. It was used to fund links to organised crime families in the Middle East,
terrorist groups. Money also went through Bulgarian intel, used to kill Soviet
dissidents in the west. (Secret wars ©2009 G Thomas US).
17 June 2009 – Switzerland Wikileaks Lord Aikins Adusai
Ghana Money laundering from Africa.
26 July 2010 – Swiss tackle Italian mafia on home soil.
Flarenetwork The Ndrangheti moved arms and drug trafficking in Switzerland and
laundering money.
19 December 2010 – Crime boss opens up about mob in
Switzerland Swissinfo drugs.
26 December 2010 – AFP Italian mafia spreads in
Switzerland. Switzerland is also being
used for drug trafficking on a large scale, and a hideout for mafia members
hunted by police.
2011 – St Moritz Switzerland Bilderberg meeting. Infowars
Alex Jones 26 Aug 2014. Steve Watson. The Austrian location of the 2015
Bilderberg meeting venue is owned by Swiss giant Liebher group.
18 May 2012 – Growing threat authorities brace for fight
against the mafia Swissinfo Mafia crime in Switzerland.
19 November 2012 – Brazillian sex traffickers target
Switzerland. Human trafficking a code of silence in Switzerland.
26 November 2012 – Former SNC LAVALIN executive was charged
in Switzerland. Report. Toronto Reuters Yahoo news. Money laundering in
Switzerland CBC news Canada. Riadh Ben Aissa was charged with fraud, corruption
and money laundering in Switzerland.
December 2012 – The Swiss coordination unit against the trafficking
of persons and smuggling of migrants KSMM Police department Switzerland.
5 December 2012 – Intelnews.org by Joseph Fitsanakis. A
Swiss intel employee stole millions of classified pages. Reuters.
16 December 2012 –
Money laundering public intel Money laundering banks fuel Mexican drug cartels.
16 July 2013 – Swiss bank leaker. Money is easy to hide.
Spiegel online Tax evaders HSBC Swiss bank whistleblower Herve Falciani. Money
laundering and drug cartels.
26 Aug 2014 – Mafia arrests. Swiss info. 16 members of Mafia
arrested in Thurgau.
27 Aug 2014 – Secret meeting Calabrian. The Independent.
Calabrian Ndrangheta gun and drug mafia. Swiss town of Fauenfeld north of
Zurich.
28 Aug 2014 – Extortion cocaine heroin. Mafia. The
Independent London. A gathering of Calabrian Ndrangheta gun and drug mafia, was
held in Swiss the town of Frauenfeld, north of Zurich.
10 Sept 2014 – Peru closer trade with Switzerland.
Freshplaza. Peru could become Switzerland’s new food provider. Demand for
Peru’s products.
