Switzerland

Olympic gymnast Alina Kabaeva, 38, is believed to have been sent to a private chalet in Switzerland earlier this month as Putin continues to wage war in Ukraine. Kabaeva is widely believed to be the Russian strongman's mistress and mother to four of Putin's children whom he has never officially recognised.

Cassis told Swiss television station RTS on Sunday that "it is very probable" the Swiss government "will decide to do so [freeze assets] tomorrow", RT reported. "But I cannot anticipate decisions not yet taken," he added. The president said that while Switzerland has supposedly remained committed to its policy of neutrality, "that does not prevent us from calling a spade a spade."

Christened as “Suisse secrets”, this huge leak of confidential banking data was provided by a whistleblower to a German newspaper “Süddeutsche Zeitung”. This data was analysed and organized by a wide network of working under the umbrella of Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP).

The fallout from a huge leak of Credit Suisse banking data threatened to damage Switzerlands entire financial sector on Monday after the European Parliaments main political grouping raised the prospect of adding the country to a money-laundering blacklist, The Guardian reported. The European People's party (EPP), the largest political grouping of the European parliament, called for the EU to review its relationship with Switzerland and consider whether it should be added to its list of countries associated with a high risk of financial crime.