The Finma Report Revealed: Does Raiffeisen-Gisel Accuse His Own People?

This was to happen: the very sensitive report, which Finma completed in mid-June and which has so far been shown only to a few people within the Raiffeisen bank , found his way to the public. In the beginning, only the management and the board of directors had access to it, and later the delegates, presidents and heads of the country's 255 cooperatives.

One of them was transmitting information to the SonntagsZeitung. And he fires CEO Patrik Gisel (56), who is already under pressure anyway. The most serious allegation: according to the report, Raiffeisen-Spitze reportedly injected more than half a billion francs into the Leonteq financial services provider by 2015, representing a global risk ! Management should have reported this to the board of directors, but this was not the case. Part of this management at the time: not only Pierin Vincenz (62) as CEO, but also Gisel as number two. Raiffeisen does not comment on the accusation – after all, it is a secret report.

"Someone wants to harm Gisel"

"If that's the case, Gisel's chair is wobbling," says a regional banker who wants to remain anonymous. "I suppose someone wants to get rid of Gisel from headquarters in St. Gallen and so deliberately publishes information that harms him."

New information is only for the public, but not internally. The chairman of the board, Pascal Gantenbein (48 years), should remain calm and stick to the CEO

"Consider criminal sanctions"

Nevertheless, Gisel is probably not happy with this leak . Precisely out of fear, the bank's top management decided that anyone who wanted to see the Finma report had to sign a "privacy statement." A spokeswoman for Raiffeisen told LOOK last Tuesday: "The statement draws delegates' attention to confidentiality and related law articles, since Finma's decision contains both bank secrecy and trade secret. . "

In other words: Anyone who reveals something can also be criminally! And indeed: A spokeswoman said Sunday night to watch: "We follow the leak and consider criminal action."

Posted on 08.07.2018 | Updated at 20:42