ZURICH: Just off rue du Rhone, Geneva’s luxury shopping street, a six-story building once home to a private bank lies vacant, its brass door shuttered and the marble siding cracked.
The property is a reminder of a time when millionaires parking money in clandestine accounts made a beeline for Geneva. Although the city has largely recovered from the end of secrecy at banks, whose numbers have shrunk by a quarter, Geneva faces questions about its allure for international businesses and the world’s wealthy.
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