181:. They listed real-estate records for Berlin property that had been seized by the Nazis, placed in Swiss accounts, and then claimed to be owned by UBS. Destruction of such documents is against Swiss laws. The documents Meili saved reportedly predate the Nazi period, dating from 1897 to 1927. On 8 January 1997, he took some bank files home. After a telephone conversation, he handed them over to a local Jewish organization, which brought the documents to the police, and eventually to the press, which published the document destruction on 14 January 1997. The ZĂĽrich authorities opened a judicial investigation against Meili for suspected violations of the
244:, a Swiss newspaper, Meili criticized Fagan for having purportedly "instrumentalized" him and letting him down. He claimed to have never received the US$ 1 million that he was due according to their agreement after settling with the Swiss banks in 1998. However, according to a report by the Swiss magazine
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claimed the "Meili Affair" was important in the decision of Swiss banks to participate in the process of reparations for victims of Nazi looting during World War II. He wrote that the affair "did more than anything to turn the Swiss banks into international pariahs by linking their dubious behavior
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on 21 October 2006, however, Meili re-iterated his criticism of Fagan and the Jewish organizations who had once championed him, stating again they had let him down. Meili, who then lived in
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during and after the War to the discovery of a seemingly unapologetic attempt to cover it up now by destroying documents." Eizenstat indicates that the affair influenced the
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were cancelled, but Meili did not return to his homeland until 2003. His marriage ended in divorce in
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2,560,000,000. On 13 August 1998, a settlement was reached between the Swiss banks and the Jewish plaintiffs totaling US$ 1.25 billion. Fagan was
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