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Zurich-based financial advisor indicted in US

This content was published on Jul 21, 2011 In a statement on Thursday, the Department of Justice (DoJ) said the Zurich-based man, 57, had conspired to help more than 60 US clients conceal assets from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) between 1998 and 2009. According to the charges filed in a New York court, the man created sham foundations and corporations in third-country…

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Libyan rebels use Swiss ammunition

This content was published on Jul 21, 2011 The Rundschau programme claimed the ammunition, which conforms to Nato standards, came from the state-owned arms manufacturer Ruag and was exported to Qatar by the FGS Frex company in Oberägeri, canton Zug. FGS Frex confirmed the report, which also said the deal had been approved in 2009 by the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (Seco)…

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Swiss public opinion “keeps tabloids in line”

This content was published on Jul 21, 2011 In Switzerland, where media houses Tamedia and Ringier own the lion’s share of the country’s press titles, there is general consensus that politics and the media must operate on separate playing fields. In an interview with swissinfo.ch, Peter Studer, a former editor of the Zurich daily Tages-Anzeiger and of Swiss public television station SF, says…

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Del Ponte welcomes Hadzic arrest

This content was published on Jul 20, 2011 Carla Del Ponte, who was at the ICTY from 1999-2007, was quoted by news agencies as saying that the arrest was a great success for the Belgrade authorities, which would help Serbia’s path towards the European Union. For its part, the ICTY said on Wednesday that it looked forward to the “expeditious” transfer of Hadzic…

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Canton Geneva to pay damages over G8 incident

This content was published on Jul 20, 2011 On Wednesday the Federal Court ruled that the use of the stun grenade was unlawful in this situation. The amount of the damages has not yet been fixed. The photographer became caught up in protests in Geneva against the G8 group of nations, meeting in June 2003 in the French town of Evian-les-Bains on Lake…

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Tackling the mafia through the money trail

This content was published on Jul 19, 2011 In last year’s annual report, the Swiss Federal Police confirmed once again that mafia were infiltrating Switzerland, in particular in the border cantons. Prosecutor Pasi is based in one such region – Italian speaking Ticino. In these regions, criminal elements are attempting to set up money laundering structures for income stemming from illegal activities. The…

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Trial opens into foiled attack on IBM

This content was published on Jul 19, 2011 The trio – a Swiss-Italian and two Italians – are accused of planning arson attacks, and of the distribution and sale of unauthorised imported explosives. They were caught in April 2010 during police road checks in canton Zurich in possession of 476 grams of explosives and other components needed to build an improvised explosive device.…

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Nuclear watchdog’s independence questioned

This content was published on Jul 19, 2011 The non-governmental organisation, Fokus Anti-Atom, is questioning the assertion by the Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate (ENSI) that fissures in the core shroud of the reactor at the Mühleberg plant do not pose a safety risk. At the end of June, the operator of the power station, BKW Energy, shut down Mühleberg five weeks before its…

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Deepwater oil still “trapped” beneath ocean

This content was published on Jul 18, 2011 Samuel Arey, an environmental chemist from Lausanne’s Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), has carried out research into the behaviour of the oil and gas released from the damaged well deep beneath the Gulf of Mexico. Eleven rig workers were killed on April 20, 2010, and the US government estimates some 206 million gallons of oil…

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Swiss release more funds for Africa food crisis

This content was published on Jul 18, 2011 The money will be used to assist refugees in Ethiopia and Kenya and the most vulnerable populations in Somalia, the foreign ministry said in statement on Monday. Countries in the Horn of Africa are suffering from a severe food crisis which is currently impacting some 11 million people – a number which is expected to…

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