Thursday, July 6, 2023

SWITZERLAND: DORMANT ASSETS 

Home Page: 

"On this website you will find information regarding dormant assets held at Swiss banks, for which the last customer contact was at least 60 years ago & the value of which is above CHF 500 [Swiss Francs] or is unknown"....

https://www.dormantaccounts.ch/

"...the names of more than 2,600 bank account holders have been published in order to try to find their heirs. The amount of dormant assets is approximately $45 million...." [information is as of December, 2015] Additionally, "...owners of 80 safe deposit boxes are being sought, the contents of which are not disclosed." [as of 2015] New names will be added annually.


Publications [of names]:

https://www.dormantaccounts.ch/narilo/

12 pages of individuals with  nationalities that include:

Germany, Switzerland, U.S., Egypt, France, Venezuela, Netherlands, Finland, Yemen, Italy, U.K., Austria, Hungary, Belgium Greece, India, Romania, Sweden, Spain, Argentina, Iran, Japan, Israel, Panama, Norway, Nepal, South Africa


This is a Russian site but there is a "language"  selection box at the top, right side of the pages.

Unclaimed funds will be/were given to the state--"the deadline for submitting requests is one year from the date of publication, or in the case of assets for which the last customer contact was 1954 or earlier, five years...."


"Unclaimed accounts are a sensitive topic i Switzerland after the World Jewish Congress led a campaign in the 1990's for Swiss banks to return assets of Holocaust victims..."

https://www.dormantaccounts.ch/

At the time of the article publication, $1. = 0.9892 Swiss francs.

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