The head of an international panel probing World War II-era dormant Swiss bank accounts said that 4,500 of the total of 6,600 claims filed so far were valid. Paul Volcker said the panel did not know how many of the accounts had belonged to victims of the Nazis, but added that many of the names appeared to be Jewish.
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