Bin Laden 'had access to Swiss account'

Osama bin Laden had access to a shared Swiss bank account in the 1990s used to collect and redistribute family inheritance money, his half brother told a French judge, court officials confirmed today.

Swiss citizen Yeslam Binladin, who spells his name differently from the terror leader, appeared briefly yesterday before investigating judge Renaud Van Ruymbeke in a long-running probe of suspected money laundering.