An Was Known, Hidden Files Reveal

The Investigators Now Taking A Fresh Look Found That Credit Suisse Withheld Crucial Information

- Grassley

Grassley said. Recent photos taken by a visitor to one of the bank's archives in Zurich shows the scale of the task: rooms full of pallets of boxes stacked from floor to ceiling, and an array of old ledgers, computers and hard-drive disks all storing client records.

Buried in storage were around 3,600 boxes from the "Inf department" containing information about clients, including ones who were on the U.S. wartime blacklist for furthering the Nazi cause.

Barofsky described the Inf department files as akin to "know your customer" details that banks keep on their clients. A preliminary search against 99 known Nazis and affiliates produced 13 name matches. Numerous files bore the American blacklist stamp, he said, which his team hadn't seen before in other Credit Suisse archives.

Some portions of the Inf department files were included in earlier reviews but were never scanned, indexed or systematically incorporated into those probes, Barofsky said in the letter to Congress. That work is now ongoing.