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Frank Garbely, Switzerland, is a freelance investigative reporter and documentary producer.

, Switzerland

He has investigated stories related to intelligence, organized crime, political corruption, money laundering, and terrorism. In 1999, Garbely gained exclusive access to court documents related to a bribery scandal involving the German company Siemens and the Spanish government. In 1998, Garbely produced a documentary about a three-month trip to Europe by Evita Peron in 1947. Garbely’s investigation revealed Peron’s links to ex-Nazis, who had sponsored her trip, and her involvement in facilitating the emigration to Argentina of former Nazis, who, in turn, helped bankroll the Peron re-election in 1951. Garbely had come upon the topic of Evita Peron’s visit while researching a previous documentary, Hitler’s Slaves – Forced Labor in Swiss Companies in the Third Reich. In 1990, Garbely co-authored a book titled The Environment of a Scandal: A Report on Organized Crime and the Role of Swiss Government Officials, showing for the first time that Switzerland was being used as a transfer country for cigarette smuggling by the Italian Mafia and that Swiss laws were allowing the laundering of money accumulated through blackmail and illicit arms and drug deals.