Region: Switzerland

In the latest roundup, the UK’s financial services regulator bolsters its leadership team with three major appointments, while in the US, the State Department named a Columbia University professor as its new anti-corruption coordinator.

12 July 2022

11 July 2022

08 July 2022

The Swiss lender plans to appeal against its conviction for anti-money laundering failures that allowed a Bulgarian gang to run its illicit proceeds through the bank.

27 June 2022

21 June 2022

Mexico’s state oil company will ask a US court to order Anglo-Swiss commodities trader Glencore to cover financial losses Pemex allegedly suffered in an oil price rigging scheme.

20 June 2022

In the latest Counsel Watch, a round-up of the lawyers acting for Glencore in the US, the UK, Brazil, Switzerland and the Netherlands in corruption investigations that have so far led to criminal resolutions in three continents.

13 June 2022

Some $100 million in frozen funds allegedly stolen from Ukraine and subject to a forfeiture attempt in Switzerland will only be returned if Ukraine spends them on projects that “improve the living conditions of the population”, Swiss officials said.

10 June 2022

07 June 2022

One lawyer said Swiss authorities are utilising a “shortcut” to circumvent the country’s normal rules on assisting foreign prosecutors in reclaiming embezzled state funds.

27 May 2022