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World Service,18 Feb 2015,28 mins
HSBC offices raided over money laundering claims
World Business ReportAvailable for over a year
Swiss prosecutors have launched an unexpected raid on the local offices of Europe's largest bank, HSBC, in response to allegations of money laundering. In Belgrade there is a debate over proposed economic reform, and long-standing hopes of joining the EU. Why experts in northern Italy are meeting up to discuss the deforestation of rainforest in central Africa. And how the Greek government is trying to head off a debt default, and how one businessman is responding to the crisis. And finally, why you might want to move to the Pitcairn Islands.
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