Bernard Bertossa was Geneva's public prosecutor from 1990 to 2002. He signed the 1996 Appel de Genève against international money laundering and other financial criminal activities. With French investigative magistrate Eva Joly, Bruxelles's king's attorney (procureur du roi) Benoît Dejemeppe, Blois' magistrate Jean de Maillard and investigative magistrate Renaud Van Ruymbeke, he signed a May 9, 2001 op-ed in Le Monde newspaper, titled ""The 'black boxes' of financial globalization", which supported investigative reporter Denis Robert in his discovery of the Clearstream Affair. Geneva (pronunciation //; French: Genève //, German: //, Italian: Ginevra) is the second most populous city in Switzerland, situated where Lake Geneva (French Lac Léman) flows into the Rhône River. ... In countries adopting the common law adversarial system or the civil law inquisitorial system, the prosecutor is the chief legal representative of the prosecution. ... Money laundering is the practice of engaging in financial transactions in order to conceal the identity, source and destination of the money in question. ... An inquisitorial system is a legal system where the court or a part of the court is actively involved in determining the facts of the case, as opposed to an adversarial system where the role of the court is solely that of an impartial referee between parties. ... Eva Joly (b. ... For other uses, see Brussels (disambiguation). ... Blois is a city in France, the préfecture (capital) city of the Loir-et-Cher département, situated on the banks of the lower river Loire between Orléans and Tours. ... Renaud van Ruymbeke is a French magistrate (juge dinstruction, in charge of the investigation and the prosecution) who investigated on the French-Taiwan frigates scandal and on the Urba affair. ... May 9 is the 129th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (130th in leap years). ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... Le Monde is a French daily evening newspaper with a circulation in 2002 of 389,200. ... Investigative journalism is a kind of journalism in which reporters deeply investigate a topic of interest, often related to crime, scandals, government corruption, white collar crime. ... Denis Robert is a French journalist, author of Revelation$ with Ernest Backes, former #3 of Clearstream. ...

See also

• Clearstream