GENEVA — Switzerland’s federal criminal court on Wednesday convicted two top managers of a Saudi oil company on charges including fraud and money laundering in a vast scam that swiped at least $1.8 billion from a Malaysian state-owned investment fund. PetroSaudi executive Tarek Obaid, a Saudi-Swiss dual national, received a seven-year sentence and British-Swiss associate...
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4 members of a billionaire family get prison in Switzerland for exploiting domestic workers
GENEVA (AP) — An Indian-born billionaire and three family members were sentenced to prison on Friday for exploiting domestic workers at their lakeside villa in Switzerland by seizing their passports, barring them from going out and making them work up to 18 hours a day. A Swiss court dismissed more serious charges of human trafficking...
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Switzerland’s sex industry punters order women like Ubers & have sex in ‘boxes’
SCANNING his passport, a man fills out paperwork to finalise the details of his booking. But this isn’t for a holiday; it is for sex with a woman on an hourly rate. 6 Welcome to Switzerland, where prostitution is legal and paying for sex has become as simple as ordering an UberCredit: Darren Fletcher 6...