Swiss banks UBS and Credit Suisse are among banks under investigation by the US justice department in a probe into whether bankers helped Russian oligarchs evade sanctions, Bloomberg reports, citing unnamed sources.

Subpoenas were sent to individual bankers before the crisis that led to UBS’s deal to take over Credit Suisse, according to the news agency.

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