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In real life, the usefulness of these numbered accounts is limited, due to how hard it is to get one nowadays... The Swiss, well aware of their banks' increasing reputation as havens for no-good-niks (not particularly helped by their willingness to stash Nazi Gold, though they were originally formed to help people ''hide'' money from the Gestapo), require numerous references and a general OK from the person's country of origin.
[[Useful Notes|To be noted]]: truly ''anonymous'' bank accounts are a thing of fiction. Even if protected by a code number, the identity of the client (and usually the source of the funds as well) is known by the chairman and high-ranking personnel of the bank, either in Switzerland or other tax havens. Money laundering and stashing of dubious funds are the province of [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|professional accountants and economists]], who know [[Honest
In more recent stories, an account in an offshore tax haven, such as the Cayman Islands, may be substituted.
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== Anime & Manga ==
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== Comic Books ==
* In the [[Tintin (Comic Book)]] adventure ''Flight 714'', there is an amoral corporate executive who is abducted so the villain can obtain the details of his Swiss bank account.
* In ''[[Asterix]] in Switzerland'', Petitsuix opens a Helvetian bank account and stashes Asterix and Obelix in a safe to hide them from the Romans. They get hungry in the middle of the night and, since the safe wasn't meant to be opened from inside, Obelix simply kicks the door off its hinges. The bank's owner, Zurix, has the Gauls moved to someone else's safe. That someone else turns out to be the Roman centurion who comes searching for the Gauls, finds the broken safe and questions the bank's security.
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