Florida ends Swiss bank deals
FLORIDA HAS decided to cancel all business deals with the big Swiss banks currently at an impasse in negotiations with Jewish groups over Holocaust- era assets, the World Jewish Congress said yesterday.
A new study by the WJC estimates that the current value of looted Jewish gold and other assets held in Switzerland during the Second World War would be worth $19 billion today.
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