The most popular magazine of Switzerland, Schweizer Illustrierte, [dated November 11, 1991] did an expose of 14 politicians mostly despots of developing nations who, it said, had stashed their bribes in Swiss banks. The title of the expose in German read "Fluchgelder - Die Schweizer Konten der Dictatoren". In English it meant, "Curse of money - The Swiss bank accounts of the Dictators". Rajiv Gandhi figured in the expose as one with slush funds in secret accounts. Schweizer Illustrierte is not some rag newspaper. It is the Number One Swiss magazine and sells some 215'268 copies. Its readership is 917'000 - some 15 per cent of Swiss adults. The magazine had mentioned specific amounts in secret Swiss accounts of different leaders with their pictures alongside.
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