Credit Suisse Pressed by US Senators Over Nazi Accounts Probe
- Swiss bank’s pledge of full cooperation ‘strains credulity’
- Whitehouse, Grassley seek clarity on post-World War II clients
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Top US Senators accused Credit Suisse Group AG of failing to follow through on pledges to cooperate with a probe into allegations the bank concealed information about accounts held by Nazis in the decades after World War II.
Sheldon Whitehouse, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, and Charles Grassley, the panel’s ranking Republican, said in a letter dated July 20 that the Swiss bank’s public assertion that it is fully cooperating “strains credulity.”