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Bankers who helped Putin's cellist convicted

The executives from the Zurich branch of Gazprombank were found guilty of allowing a friend of Vladimir Putin to deposit huge sums in Swiss banks.

The four bank executives of the Zurich branch of Gazprombank were found guilty of allowing a friend of Vladimir Putin to deposit huge sums in Swiss banks. Rahul Tandon asks if the Swiss Government could have done more to prevent it happening.

We get the latest as the International Court of Justice rules on a claim from Iran that Washington illegally allowed courts to freeze assets of Iranian companies.

And we find out how much tax Premier League football clubs may have avoided paying.

(Photo: Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) shakes hands with artistic director of St. Petersburg House of Music Sergei Roldugin after awarding him during a ceremony at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, 22 September, 2016. Credit: Ivan Sekretarev/Reuters)

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  • Thu 30 Mar 2023 14:32GMT