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Swiss extradite former Aeromexico board chief

This content was published on Sep 24, 1999 (AP) — Gerardo de Prevoisin, a former Mexican airline executive wanted in a $61 million fraud case, was flown to Mexico Friday after losing his appeal against extradition, the Swiss justice ministry said. De Prevoisin boarded a flight from Zurich Friday morning, accompanied by three Mexican police officers, a statement said. He was arrested at…

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Interlaken hosts Swiss national folk music festival

This content was published on Sep 24, 1999 The town of Interlaken in canton Berne hosts Switzerland’s biggest festival of traditional Swiss folk music this weekend. The festival, which is expected to attract thousands of visitors from near and afar, is only staged every three years and is considered the biggest and most important such folk music event. About 1,300 musicians dressed in…

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Transplant doctors call for more organ donations

This content was published on Sep 24, 1999 Swiss doctors on Friday called for more people to donate organs, saying the waiting list for patients needing transplants is growing longer by the day. The Swisstransplant organisation, which brings together six hospitals carrying out the operations, told a news conference in Berne that 920 patients were waiting for an organ in 1998. Over the…

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Roche fined C$50.9 million in Canada for price fixing

This content was published on Sep 23, 1999 Five international pharmaceutical companies, including Roche of Switzerland, have pleaded guilty to price-fixing in a Canadian court and now have 90 days to pay fines totalling C$88.4 million (SFr91.9 million). Wednesday’s convictions by a Federal Court in Toronto were related to a wider global vitamin price-fixing scheme currently being investigated by various authorities around the…

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Better training, not more laws for adventure sports

This content was published on Sep 22, 1999 Swiss Sports Minister Adolf Ogi has pleaded for better training, rather than tougher legislation, to improve safety standards in the booming adventure sports business. In a letter outlining the government’s position, Ogi came out against new legislation for adventure sports, despite the recent death of 21 people in a canyoning accident in the Bernese Oberland.…

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Swiss banks freeze suspect accounts

This content was published on Sep 21, 1999

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Bellasi fraud investigation extended to off-shore companies

This content was published on Sep 21, 1999 The Swiss Prosecutor’s Office said Tuesday that investigations in the Dino Bellasi fraud case, Switzerland’s worst defence ministry scandal in decades, had been extended to off-shore companies. A spokesman for the office said investigators were following up leads on financial transfers involving companies registered on Guernsey and Jersey as well as the Virgin Islands. The…

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Swiss give U.S. legal assistance in case of Ukraine ex-premier

This content was published on Sep 21, 1999 (AP) — Switzerland is giving the United States legal assistance in the case of Ukraine’s former prime minister, Pavlo Lazarenko, and has ordered the freezing of related assets here, a Swiss police official said Monday. U.S. authorities made the request earlier this year, and Switzerland approved it on September 9, said Folco Galli, spokesman for…

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Parents of canyoning victim take legal steps in Switzerland

This content was published on Sep 17, 1999 (AP) — The parents of one of 21 people killed in a canyoning accident have taken the first legal steps in Switzerland against the organisers of the river adventure, police said Friday. Most of the victims who drowned in a flash flood on July 27 were from Australia, where relatives have been investigating their legal…

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Bellasi investigated on new charges

This content was published on Sep 17, 1999 Dino Bellasi, the man at the heart of the biggest defence ministry fraud scandal, is now being investigated on new charges, military authorities said Friday. The head of military justice, Dieter Weber, said Bellasi was being investigated on suspicion of having violated military regulations banning the use of private arms and ammunition in Switzerland’s militia…

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