Swiss confirm bin Laden bank link

Swiss authorities involved in the global hunt for terror money have established that both Osama bin Laden and suspected al-Qaida No 2 Ayman al-Zawahiri had links to Swiss bank accounts.

Andrea Sadecky, a spokeswoman for the Swiss Federal Prosecutor’s Office, confirmed a report in the Geneva daily Le Temps, which said bin Laden was the beneficiary of an account held in a Zurich branch of UBS, Switzerland’s largest bank, while al-Zawahiri held an account at an unidentified Geneva bank.