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Christoph Meili, right, a former security guard at the Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS), and his wife Giuseppina Meili, left, stand in front of the UBS branch in New York and display January 14, 1998, a death threat letter they received recently. The Meili's are suing UBS for 3.1 billion USD for compensatory and punative damages on 11 counts, including emotional distress and defamation of character. Christoph Meili alerted authorities to documents relating to claims by Holocaust victims that allegedly were to be destroyed by UBS in January 1997. (KEYSTONE/AFP/Stan HONDA)