Hugo Miller

2 weeks ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Hugo Miller

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 — although he conceded the idea could take years to become law. The recent convictions on bribery charges of former executives from top commodity-trading firms Trafigura and Gunvor, while notable, took too long to prosecute, Swiss Attorney General Stefan Blaettler told press reporters at a conference on Thursday.

3 weeks ago | bloomberg.com | Hugo Miller

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.

3 weeks ago | bloomberg.com | Hugo Miller

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3 weeks ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Hugo Miller

Overdue US funding for the World Trade Organization is under a Trump administration review, adding strains on an institution whose mission of lower trade barriers is threatened by the US president’s planned launch of so-called reciprocal tariffs. A State Department this week spokesperson confirmed the WTO is included in a broader formal funding review by Trump into US support for international organizations.