Austria’s Creditanstalt Bank said it would conduct a second probe of its wartime records to prove it had no involvement in the laundering of gold and other valuables stripped from Holocaust victims. The bank was named along with Germany’s two largest commercial banks in an $18 billion class-action lawsuit filed by Holocaust survivors claiming the institutions knowingly traded in victims’ assets.
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