Swiss Bank Account: Difference between revisions

* ''[[The Spy Who Loved Me]]''. After the two scientists complete the submarine tracking system, Stromberg transfers $10 million into their Swiss bank accounts. [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|He then kills them]], and cancels the transfers.

* ''The Spanish Prisoner''.

* There's one in ''Smiley's People''.

* ''The Order''. The character Ben Nur has one.

* ''[[Fun with Dick and Jane]]'': The local bad guy has stashed all his plundered money in an account like this (it's never mentioned what country it belongs to).

* A group of mercenaries in the 1985 comedy ''[[Water]]'':

'''Mercenaries:''' Viva franc! Viva deutschmark! Viva dollar! Viva numbered bank account in Switzerland! }}

* At the end of ''[[FX]]'', Rollie and Leo use Rollie's special effects makeup expertise (and the stolen account information) to drain Nick DeFranco's Swiss bank account of nearly ten million dollars before the Swiss bankers find out that Nick has been killed.

* ''[[Burn Notice]]''

** Episode "Friends and Enemies":

'''Gregory Hart:''' I work for a 16-digit Swiss bank account number, and an anonymous email address. }}

** Michael's friend Barry specializes in setting those up and using them to launder money for criminals and spies.

* In ''[[Human Target]]'' Season 2 premiere Ilsa (a a good person) has a vault in a Swiss bank which can only be entered with retina scans of both Ilsa and her late husband; the bad guy uses her (in a hostage situation) and [[Borrowed Biometric Bypass|her dead husband's eyeball, removed from his body]] to get in to steal their billions. In another episode she transfers a couple mil from her Swiss bank to a local bank specifically in order to draw out some [[Dirty Cop|Dirty Cops]] who were looking for her; in that same episode the main bad guy has an offshore bank account in Barbados where he stores his ill-gotten gains.

* An episode of ''[[Murphy Brown]]'' had a millionaire fall in love with Murphy and shower her with expensive gifts to try to get her to marry him, until he flat out tries to bribe her with a large check. She says no, the guy finally relents...and proposes to Kay, who immediately accepts. Murphy is horrified and calls Kay out on this...

** Because [[Status Quo Is God]] the guy divorces her and takes back the money. However Kay managed to keep [[Ben Stein]] as her man servant.

* The unsophisticated drug lord Marlo Stanfield from ''[[The Wire]]'' has to be introduced to this trope (Antillean off-shore version) and even then he decides to visit the bank in person to verify that his money is actually there.

== Theatre ==

* In ''[[Evita]]'', the corrupt government's lavish spending is explained in the song "And The Money Kept Rolling In (and Out)", which is all about Eva's charity work until the last verse:

Never been accounts in the name of Eva Peron! }}

 

* In one episode of ''[[G.I. Joe Extreme]]'', Rampage mentions he'll transfer the money he got from a deal to his Swiss bank account.

* The Cayman Islands version appears in ''[[The Simpsons]]'', "Bart the Fink":

It's too hot today. }}