Bernard Bertossa was Geneva

Geneva

Geneva In the national languages of Switzerland the city is known as Genf , Ginevra and Genevra is the second-most-populous city in Switzerland and is the most populous city of Romandie, the French-speaking part of Switzerland...

's public prosecutor from 1990 to 2002. He signed the 1996 Appel de Genève against international money laundering

Money laundering

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 and other financial criminal activities. With French investigative magistrate Eva Joly

Eva Joly

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, Brussels

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's king's attorney (procureur du roi) Benoît Dejemeppe, Blois

Blois

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' magistrate Jean de Maillard

Jean de Maillard

Jean de Maillard is a French magistrate in Blois.He wrote several books concerning financial crime...

 and investigative magistrate Renaud Van Ruymbeke

Renaud Van Ruymbeke

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, he signed a May 9, 2001 op-ed in Le Monde

Le Monde

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newspaper, titled ""The 'black boxes' of financial globalization", which supported investigative reporter Denis Robert

Denis Robert

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 in his discovery of the Clearstream Affair

Clearstream affair

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