81. For years, Swiss bank officials claimed they could not find accounts or demanded death certificates for account holders who died in the Holocaust. 82. Ghazali said that an account holder can withdraw her deposit after one month, However, Siti Zaharah encouraged women to keep their funds in the Tabung long term. 83. He advised account holders not to panic, because the authorities guaranteed all the deposits in the system. 84. He also demanded that the finance minister and the central bank governor allow him to fully reimburse all Bank Jakarta account holders. 85. He urged complainants to include all correspondence between the account holder and the bank concerned when sending in their complaints. 86. Hier said the bankers and Swiss authorities should investigate whether the account holders really were the war criminals or innocent people who happened to share the same names. 87. If account holders could still be mailed at a Swiss address, accounts were classed as active. 88. In the freezing order sent to the banks, Swiss authorities stipulated that the account holders not be informed of the action. 89. In some cases, no search for the account holders was made. 90. It later allowed account holders to withdraw money in rupees or in long-term foreign currency bonds. |
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