BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The principle political grouping within the European Parliament known as on Monday for a evaluate of Switzerland’s banking practices and for the nation’s potential inclusion within the EU’s dirty-money blacklist after leaks of Credit score Suisse (SIX:) paperwork.

Media retailers revealed the outcomes of investigations right into a leak of information on 1000’s of accounts held on the financial institution in previous a long time and mentioned they appeared to indicate shoppers included human rights abusers and businessmen beneath sanctions.

Credit score Suisse mentioned it strongly rejected any allegations of wrongdoing and that the media experiences have been based mostly on “partial, inaccurate or selective info taken out of context”.

The European Folks’s Get together (EPP), the conservative grouping which holds the largest variety of seats within the European Parliament, known as on the EU Fee on Monday to “re-evaluate Switzerland as high-risk money-laundering nation”.

“The ‘Swiss Secrets and techniques’ findings level to huge shortcomings of Swiss Banks in relation to the prevention of cash laundering,” the EPP’s coordinator on financial affairs Markus Ferber mentioned.

“When Swiss banks fail to use worldwide anti-money laundering requirements correctly, Switzerland itself turns into a high-risk jurisdiction,” he added.

The EU checklist at the moment includes 21 nations who’re deemed to have shortfalls of their guidelines and practices towards cash laundering. Amongst them are Iran, Myanmar, Syria and North Korea. No European nation is on the checklist.

Swiss authorities and the European Fee, which is liable for drafting and reviewing the checklist, weren’t instantly accessible for a remark.