GenevaLunch » Foreign Affairs Department http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:57:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg GenevaLunch http://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Mubarak assets: first clues trickle in to Bern http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/02/15/mubarak-assets-first-clues-trickle-in-to-bern/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/02/15/mubarak-assets-first-clues-trickle-in-to-bern/#comments Tue, 15 Feb 2011 15:47:52 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=54084 GenevaLunch.com “Still too early” says Swiss government to say how much money is involved EU reportedly decides today if it will follow Swiss example Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Assets held in Switzerland, now or in the past, by former Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak and his family and friends may not easily be traced, but details are [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/02/15/mubarak-assets-first-clues-trickle-in-to-bern/feed/ 4 Libya: Swiss gov’t presses charges against Geneva politician http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/11/18/libya-swiss-govt-presses-charges-against-geneva-politician/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/11/18/libya-swiss-govt-presses-charges-against-geneva-politician/#comments Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:19:52 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=50059 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - The federal police and foreign affairs departments have agreed to back the Swiss attorney general’s office to press charges against a prominent Geneva politician at the request of Libya. The two departments announced Thursday 18 November that Libya had formally requested that charges be pressed against Eric Stauffer, president of the [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/11/18/libya-swiss-govt-presses-charges-against-geneva-politician/feed/ 0 Switzerland names Ambuehl to key int’l tax post http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/01/13/switzerland-names-ambuehl-to-key-intl-tax-post/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/01/13/switzerland-names-ambuehl-to-key-intl-tax-post/#comments Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:00:59 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=35248 GenevaLunch.com Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Michael Ambuehl has been named Switzerland’s State Secretary for International Financial and Tax Matters, head of a new secretariat within the Federal Finance Department. Ambuehl is probably best known as the man who negotiated the UBS arrangement with the United States Justice Department in early 2009. The new secretariat “will serve [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/01/13/switzerland-names-ambuehl-to-key-intl-tax-post/feed/ 1 Switzerland says Mobutu case shows need to reform legal system http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/16/switzerland-says-mobutu-case-shows-need-to-reform-legal-system/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/16/switzerland-says-mobutu-case-shows-need-to-reform-legal-system/#comments Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:56:58 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=22250 GenevaLunch.com Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - The Swiss government says it “deplores” the fact that it was obliged 15 July to inform Swiss banks and the heirs to accounts that belonged to former Zaire (now DR Congo) dictator Mobutu Sese Seko that nearly CHF8 million in Swiss banks must be unfrozen, meaning the money returns to the [...]

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