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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Via AP news wire

Switzerland's top lawyer seeks tools to curb financial crime

' KEYSTONE / ALESSANDRO DELLA VALLE

Switzerland’s new attorney general is pushing parliament to give his office more tools to fight white-collar crime.

The country's maximum financial penalty on corporations for wrongdoing is just 5 million Swiss francs ($5 million), and that's “ridiculous,” Stefan Blaettler said Friday in an interview on the sidelines of his first press conference as attorney general.

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