
If ever anyone wanted to know what Swiss private bankers are capable of, they could do worse than follow how one of the world’s best-known billionaires claims to have been treated.
Long accused of behaving in an idiosyncratic manner, currying favour with foreign potentates and rulers, respecting different paymasters, operating behind a veil of secrecy, Switzerland’s finest would appear to be are still up to their old tricks, certainly where the case of Bidzina Ivanishvili is concerned.