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On Transparency International's 2023 Corruption Perceptions Index, Switzerland scored 82 on a scale from 0 ("highly corrupt") to 100 ("very clean"). When ranked by score, Switzerland ranked 6th among the 180 countries in the Index, where the country ranked first is perceived to have the most honest public sector. [5]
Additionally, Switzerland is perceived to be among the least politically corrupt nations in the world, ranking 3rd internationally (tied with Sweden and Singapore) in the 2020 Corruption Perceptions Index published by Transparency International. [22]
In Switzerland, police registered a total of 432,000 offenses under the Criminal Code in 2019 (−0.2% compared with previous year), of which 110,140 or 25.5 percent were cases of thefts (excluding vehicles, −2.0%), and 41,944 or 9.7 percent were thefts of vehicles (including bicycles, −10.1%), 46 were killings and 161 were attempted murders.
Corruption in Switzerland; 0–9. 2015 FIFA corruption case; B. Sepp Blatter This page was last edited on 13 May 2022, at 00:20 (UTC). Text is available ...
the level of corruption in the country of origin is notoriously high; the assets were likely acquired through corruption, criminal mismanagement or other felonies; the safeguarding of Switzerland's interests requires the freezing of the assets. Assets can also be frozen for purpose of confiscation if three conditions are met (art. 4 para. 2):
The Global Corruption Barometer published by Transparency International is the largest survey in the world tracking public opinion on corruption. [1] It surveys 114,000 people in 107 countries on their view of corruption.
Transparency International: Corruption Perceptions Index ranked 8 out of 180 (2010) Reporters Without Borders: Press Freedom Index ranked 1 out of 178 (2010) The Economist: Democracy Index ranked 8 out of 167 (2010)
The Anti-Money Laundering Act is designed to prevent members of mafia or terrorist organizations from gaining access to financial institutions. Under this law, financial institutions (banks, asset managers, investment companies, etc.) must, for example, withhold the names of beneficial owners from all transfers of value, pending investigation.