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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 ]
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):
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Bribe Payers Index (BPI) is a measure of how willing a nation's multinational corporations appear to engage in corrupt business practices. [1] The first BPI was published by Transparency International on October 26, 1999, and the last one in 2011.
After the 2008 financial crisis, Switzerland signed the European Union Savings Directive (EUSD) which obliges Swiss banks to report to 43 European countries non-identifying annual tax statistics. [19] On December 3, 2008, the Federal Assembly increased the prison sentence for violations of banking secrecy from a maximum of six months to five ...
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.
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.
A crime is illegal 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.