Region: Switzerland

14 March 2023

Four bankers are set to face trial in Switzerland over claims they failed to carry out sufficient due diligence on Sergey Roldugin, the godfather of Vladimir Putin’s daughter.

07 March 2023

28 February 2023

Anti-corruption organisations have called for improved whistleblowers protections in Switzerland after prosecutors announced a criminal investigation into possible breaches of the country’s criminal code and banking laws following publication of the so-called Suisse Secrets.

14 February 2023

Two US nationals, supported by two Swiss lawyers, will oversee the commodities trader’s compliance obligations stemming from its 2022 foreign bribery and market manipulation plea agreements in the US.

13 February 2023

An appeals court overturned a Texas federal judge’s decision to dismiss the DOJ's bribery and money laundering cases against two Swiss citizens for lack of jurisdiction.

09 February 2023

A Ukrainian court has frozen the bank accounts of a local subsidiary of Swiss-headquartered iron ore producer Ferrexpo at the request of Ukraine’s Office of the Prosecutor General.

07 February 2023

Three individuals have been accused in a London court of defrauding a commodities trading business and a financial consultancy in Switzerland.

31 January 2023

The SFO has asked Swiss prosecutors to help it obtain the banking records of a Gibraltar company suspected of laundering bribes for the daughter of the ex-president of Uzbekistan.

16 January 2023

In the latest counsel watch, GIR looks at the white-collar lawyers acting for cryptocurrency company Binance, and those involved in recent cross-border bribery settlements and the US case against crypto company FTX’s founder Sam Bankman-Fried.

05 January 2023