Swiss wealth manager Lombard Odier indicted for money laundering

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Lombard Odier — one of Switzerland’s oldest private banks — has been indicted by Swiss prosecutors for “aggravated money laundering.”
In a release out on Friday, the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland said it filed an indictment against Lombard Odier and a former employee of the bank at Switzerland’s Federal Criminal Court earlier on Tuesday.
The accused allegedly helped conceal the proceeds of a criminal organization set up by Gulnara Karimova — the daughter of Islam Karimov, the authoritarian president of Uzbekistan.

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