03-04-2025
Swiss Attorney General Who Busted Trafigura Wants US-Style Powers
Switzerland's top prosecutor has called on legislators to give him sweeping US-style powers and more investigators to dole out faster justice to errant companies.
The recent convictions on bribery charges of former executives from top commodity-trading firms Trafigura and Gunvor, while notable, took years to prosecute 'and the protracted nature of such proceedings poses a major challenge,' the office of Swiss Attorney General Stefan Blaettler said in a statement Thursday. Criminal investigations into wrongdoing at Glencore Plc which resulted in a so-called summary penalty order still took more than four years to complete, it said.
