GenevaLunch » investigation http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Sun, 27 May 2012 07:22:47 +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.jpgGenevaLunchhttp://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Riddes lumberyard fire under investigationhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/21/riddes-lumberyard-fire-under-investigation/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/21/riddes-lumberyard-fire-under-investigation/#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 06:21:46 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=70363 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A lumberyard in the centre of the small town of Riddes, between Martigny and Sion in canton Valais, went up in flames around 22:00 Sunday night 20 May, causing heavy damage but no injuries. Police say an investigation has been opened, with no clear cause for the fire at the moment. The [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/21/riddes-lumberyard-fire-under-investigation/feed/ 0 Sierre bus crash: many of the injured not ready to talkhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/28/sierre-bus-crash-many-of-the-injured-not-ready-to-talk/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/28/sierre-bus-crash-many-of-the-injured-not-ready-to-talk/#comments Wed, 28 Mar 2012 14:57:55 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=68338 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Many of the children who were injured in the bus crash 13 March in Sierre are not yet ready to be interviewed by the police, their parents have reportedly told Belgian and Swiss police investigators, according to Belgian media. A team of Swiss inspectors is in Belgium this week for interviews as [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/28/sierre-bus-crash-many-of-the-injured-not-ready-to-talk/feed/ 0 Public prosecutor says “pertinent” material found during Blocher searchhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/23/public-prosecutor-says-pertinent-material-found-during-blocher-search/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/23/public-prosecutor-says-pertinent-material-found-during-blocher-search/#comments Fri, 23 Mar 2012 06:42:18 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=68183 GenevaLunch.com Right-wing UDC strategist was not told ahead of search for breaking banking secrecy laws BERN, SWITZERLAND – Zurich public prosecutor Andreas Brunner says “pertinent” material was found during a search of the home and office of Christoph Blocher, a UDC People’s Party leader. Blocher was not told in advance that his home and office would [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/23/public-prosecutor-says-pertinent-material-found-during-blocher-search/feed/ 0 Swiss political world startled as defender of bank secrecy searchedhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/21/swiss-political-world-startled-as-defender-of-bank-secrecy-searched/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/21/swiss-political-world-startled-as-defender-of-bank-secrecy-searched/#comments Wed, 21 Mar 2012 17:22:10 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=68073 GenevaLunch.com Blocher, strategist for right-wing People’s Party, ironically under suspicion for breaking bank secrecy laws ZURICH, SWITZERLAND –  The search Tuesday 20 March by Zurich police of both the home and the office of Christophe Blocher startled the Swiss political world, in part because Blocher has been a staunch supporter of Swiss bank secrecy. The searches [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/21/swiss-political-world-startled-as-defender-of-bank-secrecy-searched/feed/ 1 Swiss investigation into possible bank lending rate fixing is latest in a stringhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/04/swiss-investigation-into-possible-bank-lending-rate-fixing-is-latest-in-a-string/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/04/swiss-investigation-into-possible-bank-lending-rate-fixing-is-latest-in-a-string/#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:57:41 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=66271 GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – Comco, Switzerland’s competition commission, has opened an investigation into more than 10 international banks and companies and the country’s two largest, UBS and Credit Suisse, for possible “collusion between derivative traders [that] might have influenced the reference rates Libor and Tibor. Furthermore, market conditions regarding derivative products based on these reference rates [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/04/swiss-investigation-into-possible-bank-lending-rate-fixing-is-latest-in-a-string/feed/ 0 Syria protest deaths reach 3,500, Geneva UN group sayshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/08/syria-protest-deaths-reach-3500-geneva-un-group-says/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/08/syria-protest-deaths-reach-3500-geneva-un-group-says/#comments Tue, 08 Nov 2011 21:07:58 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=63360 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The number of deaths in Syria as a result of the crackdown on protests has reached 3,500, the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva says. Ravina Shamdasani, spokesperson for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said in a press briefing that 60 deaths have been recorded since [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/08/syria-protest-deaths-reach-3500-geneva-un-group-says/feed/ 0 Assange extradition to Sweden approvedhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/02/assange-extradition-to-sweden-approved/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/02/assange-extradition-to-sweden-approved/#comments Wed, 02 Nov 2011 21:23:53 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=63125 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, 2 November lost his high court appeal to avoid extradition to Sweden. His lawyers say they will decide in the next 14 days whether or not to appeal to Britain’s supreme court. Assange is wanted by Sweden for questioning over charges of sexual assault filed by two [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/02/assange-extradition-to-sweden-approved/feed/ 0 TV documentary says Swissair 111 crash could have been “murder”http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/16/tv-documentary-says-swissair-111-crash-could-have-been-murder/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/16/tv-documentary-says-swissair-111-crash-could-have-been-murder/#comments Fri, 16 Sep 2011 09:45:50 +0000 Laila Rodriguez http://genevalunch.com/?p=61615 GenevaLunch.com CANADA – New allegations by Tom Juby an investigator who looked into the fatal crash of Swissair Flight 111 in the coast of Canada, argue that the fire in the doomed plane could have been caused by an incendiary device, and that a “homicide investigation should have taken place.” The controversial allegations are made on [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/16/tv-documentary-says-swissair-111-crash-could-have-been-murder/feed/ 1 Russia’s Magnitsky corruption investigation continues after his deathhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/08/03/russias-magnitsky-corruption-investigation-continues-after-his-death/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/08/03/russias-magnitsky-corruption-investigation-continues-after-his-death/#comments Wed, 03 Aug 2011 11:19:33 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=60380 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Russian authorities look set to continue their investigation into the affairs of Sergei Magnitsky, who was beaten to death in prison in November 2009, after the Heritage Capital lawyer spent 11 months in prison, in pre-trial detention. He was arrested on tax evasion charges, reports the Moscow Times,  after he “accused several [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/08/03/russias-magnitsky-corruption-investigation-continues-after-his-death/feed/ 0 Valais investigates ski lift operator, safety manager in Evolènehttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/03/23/valais-investigates-ski-lift-operator-safety-manager-in-evolene/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/03/23/valais-investigates-ski-lift-operator-safety-manager-in-evolene/#comments Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:23:28 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=55596 GenevaLunch.com Sion, Valais (GenevaLunch) – A criminal investigation is pursuing two people following initial official inquiries into the death of a 12-year-old girl in Evolène, canton Valais, in February. The girl died after sliding downhill and crashing into a pylon when she slipped from a towbar at the top of a ski slope. Cantonal justice officials [...]

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