Throwback: DAVOS Interview - Professor of Criminology and Crime, University of Basel, Switzerland


Economic troubles around the world has fueled corruption and even organized criminals have used banks to make their transactions, says Professor Mark Pieth of Basel University.

"People are always mentioning the banks of Cyprus for instance in combination with Russian criminals. I am a technician and I am not speaking to you in order to be politically correct and I think that there is an issue there."

The interview was published in the March 2013 issue of the Dubai-based magazine TRENDS - An International Magazine on Arab Affairs. Below is the jpeg file of the TRENDS magazine.





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