Of the list of unclaimed accounts and properties published by his office, fewer than 10 have been recovered after claims to them were confirmed, he said.

Mrs. Werner said she had trusted the banks, thinking that they kept books and records and would publish a list of the unclaimed accounts.

The Swiss Bankers Association said today that it had found 775 unclaimed accounts and safe deposits of foreign clients with 36 institutions from that period.

The association said 15 banks reported they were unable to find any unclaimed accounts from the period.

The Swiss Bankers Association said on Wednesday that it had found 775 unclaimed pre-war accounts and safe deposits of foreign clients at 36 banks.

At no charge, searchers can look through $50 million of unclaimed accounts from mutual funds, insurers and financial companies like American Express and Chase Bank.

The prosecutors said several executives in Mr. Kingdon's unit, whom they declined to identify, treated unclaimed accounts like a vast slush fund.

Under Section 169.06 of the Ohio Revised Code, you must possess a property interest in an unclaimed account in order to request a claim form.

They had left it, gathering figurative dust, thinking it might show up one day in those "unclaimed account" advertisements.

In 1972 the Swiss Government directed its banks to make larger payments from the unclaimed accounts to Jewish and Swiss charities.