Christoph Meili

Quick Facts

Full Name	Christoph Meili
Occupation	Guard
Date Of Birth	Apr 21, 1968(1968-04-21)
Age	56
Country	Switzerland
Horoscope	Aries

Christoph Meili Biography

Christoph Meili is one of the most popular and richest Guard who was born on April 21, 1968 in Switzerland. Michel Christopher “Christoph” Meili (born 21 April 1968) is a whistleblower from Switzerland and former security expert. The year 1997 was the time Meili in violation of the law, disclosed other parties that the Swiss banks Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) destroyed documents of Holocaust-related assets. After a federal warrant for arrest as well as a string of fines and warnings of his death against Meili, Meili fled Switzerland to the United States by right of asylum in late 1997before returning to Switzerland in 2009.

His disclosure led to the creation of a US$1.25 billion agreement between a variety of Swiss banks as well as Jewish victims in the month of August 1998. Meili had the right to receive $750,000 from the settlement. The man returned back to Switzerland having spent the entire settlement cash and was met with mixed reception from Swiss documents.

Following the time that Meili as well as his entire family members reported receiving threats to kill them They left for America. United States and were granted the right to political asylum under a private bill. According to media reports Meili along with his relatives are thought to be the sole Swiss citizens ever to be granted legal asylum from America. United States. On the 13th of January, 1998, attorney Ed Fagan filed suit against UBS on behalf of Jewish victims with a total of US$2,560,000,000. On August 13, 1998 an agreement was reached by UBS and the Swiss banks, and Jewish plaintiffs, totalling US$1.25 billion. Fagan was exiled from New York and New Jersey because he failed to pay court fees and fines, and also for stealing client funds and trust funds from escrow Holocaust survivors. The investigations by the Justice of Zurich against Meili for allegedly violating law on bank secrecy annulled, however Meili was not allowed to return to Switzerland until. His divorce was finalized at the end of February. In September 2003, he visited relatives in Switzerland. Then, in Die Weltwoche, a Swiss publication, Meili criticized Fagan for being said to have “instrumentalized” him and letting him down. He claimed that he had not received the US $1 million was due to him under their agreement following the settlement with Swiss banks back in 1998. According to an article in the Swiss magazine Facts (17 March 2005), Meili did receive the sum of $750,000.

Christoph Meili Net Worth

Christoph Meili is one of the richest Guard from Switzerland. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Christoph Meili 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

The author of Imperfect Justice, activist Stuart Eizenstat declared that”the “Meili Affair” was important in the decision of Swiss banks to take part in the process of compensation for the victims from Nazi plundering in World War II. He claimed that the scandal “did more than anything to turn the Swiss banks into international pariahs by linking their dubious behavior during and after the War to the discovery of a seemingly unapologetic attempt to cover it up now by destroying documents.” Eizenstat states that the scandal was a factor in an Swiss Bankers Association (SBA) decision to set up an Humanitarian Fund for the Victims of the Holocaust and this Fund was proposed at SBA by SBA through Rainer Gut, the chairman of Credit Suisse. It was also among several events that influenced those who attended the London Conference on Nazi Gold (1997).

In the beginning of 1997 Meili worked as night security guard at UBS. Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) in Zurich, Switzerland. He learned that the UBS’s officials UBS had destroyed documents regarding orphaned assetsthat were thought to be the credit balances from deceased Jewish clients who’s heirs’ locations were not known, as well as documents of the German Reichsbank. They listed stock accounts of businesses operating in The Holocaust, including BASF, Degussa, and Degesch. They also listed records of real estate for Berlin property that was taken by the Nazis and placed into Swiss accounts, then claimed to belong to UBS. Destroying such documents is prohibited by Swiss laws. The documents Meili saved are believed to predate even the Nazi period, spanning from 1897 until 1927. On the 8th of January, 1997, he brought the bank’s files to his home. After a conversation with a friend and a handover to the local Jewish organization, which handed documents to the police and later to the media, who announced the destruction of the documents on January 14, 1997. The Zurich authorities initiated an investigation into the judicial system against Meili for alleged violation of Swiss law on banking secrecy. It is a criminal offense that is prosecutable by law in Switzerland.

Meili studied communication sciences at Chapman University after his arrival in California. After earning his college degree in May 2004, he found employment in the security sector. On 14 May 2005 he became a naturalized United States citizen. In an interview with the Swiss newspaper Sonntagsblick on 21 October 2006, however, Meili re-iterated his criticism of Fagan and the Jewish organizations who had once championed him, stating again they had let him down. Meili, who then lived in Southern California, stated in an interview that he was working for a minimum wage. In 2009, divorced from his wife, Meili then traveled back to Switzerland to restart his life for the last time.

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