Swiss Justice Ministry requested information on CGT Labour Confederation leader Hugo Moyano and his son Pablo, within the framework ofa money laundering probe. Judge Norberto Oyarbide will handle the case in Buenos Aires.
Federal Judge Norberto Oyarbide requested further details to Switzerland regarding an ongoing money laundering investigation. Ambassador Johanees Matyassi informed the Argentine government that the investigation is not tied to Moyano and his organization. BuenosAiresHerald.com received the same reply from Switzerland’s Attorney General’s office.
Swiss Ambassador in Argentina Johannes Mattyase said that "there was no complot, or pressure whatsoever" in the request of information of Hugo Moyano in connection to a money laundering case.
Distraught parents flew to Switzerland after a bus carrying a Belgian school group home from a ski trip crashed into the wall of a Swiss tunnel, killing 22 children and six others.
Switzerland will keep its special low-tax deals for wealthy foreigners such as music and sports celebrities but increase the amount of tax they pay following a vote by parliament which faced pressure to scrap the system.
Switzerland’s government rejected a law suit filed by US vulture funds asking to set an embargo on Argentina's assets deposited in the Bank for International Settlements as funds claim the payment of a US$1 billion debt.
Two people were injured when a parcel bomb exploded in the offices of the Swiss nuclear lobby, police said.
Swiss bank UBS's Chief Executive Oswald Gruebel resigned, shouldering the blame after its scandal-hit investment banking business lost $2.3 billion in alleged rogue trading.
The lower house of Switzerland's parliament took a first step towards banning full-face veils, voting in favour of a measure brought by the political party that spearheaded the 2009 campaign against building new minarets.
Peru's president Ollanta Humala, travelled to Europe today, where he will stay for the total of one week and visit Switzerland, France and Germany.
Canadian Nik Zoricic died after crashing in a World Cup ski cross race in the Swiss resort of Grindelwald, Alpine Canada said in a statement.