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Published on: 7/31/2004
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The PRINPAG President, Gina Blay who was one of the journalists on the tour of the Swiss Banks says the Swiss authorities were not specific about the 400 Africans and Ghanaians who had stashed monies in Swiss banks.
"What the Swiss wanted to do concerning their banking system which was of immense interest to the journalists who were there and especially those from Nigeria because the Abacha factor was to expose us to their ways of banking," she says.
Quizzed if they discovered if any Ghanaian Leader or politician had stashed monies in Swiss accounts, Ms Blay replied in the negative " we did not come across anything like that, we definitely came across Abacha of Nigeria and Marcos of Philippines," she says.
She says, " we did make enquiries, we even mention the Blay Meizah case when we met the association of bankers but they were not too much familiar with the case," she says
Ms Blay says the purpose of the trip was not to go and investigate clients of Swiss banks but to expose them to Switzerland.
"We did make enquiries and mentioned names of one or two Ghanaian politicians but I will not tell you their names," she says.