Bern, Switzerland (Le Temps, Fre) – A parliamentary sub-commission has apologized for its mistakes and a lack of communication in an affair that in the September 2007 raised questions about Federal Counsellor Christophe Blocher’s involvement with banker Oskar Holenweger. At the time there were concerns that the banker, perhaps with the approval of Blocher, had plotted to get rid of the chief federal prosecutor, but the affair later appeared to have been the result of confusion and mis-information.
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News story, GenevaLunch, 29 November 2007.
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