In seven years as the top Swiss prosecutors Michael Lauber it has shaken a lot of hands, or squeezed. His hands, pressure at the pain threshold was already to the Bernese Unizeiten his trademark. At the Zofingia student Association they christened the Jusstudenten crushing.
The unusual Welcome, and the directness in the exchange today Michael Lauber winning beings. Open and binding it, many, met with the Federal attorney praise. Evil tongues claim that it is all just a facade.
in any case, remained the pinch pinch, no matter whether he carries out, especially in Bern, Brasilia, or the Kuala Lumpur office. Lauber suppressed in a high cadence hands of counterparts, parliamentarians, Stakeholders or of – Fifa-President.
re-election is at risk
Long the 53-Year-old seemed to be in order to be successful. As a kind of chief diplomat of the Swiss criminal justice system, he tried to intricate large international process forward. But now, towards the end of his second term, has become of the handshake-policy-a handshake Problem. Due to a secretive meeting with world football Boss Gianni Infantino the Federal Prosecutor is currently going through his biggest professional crisis, yesterday tightened. The supervision of President Hanspeter Uster joined in Bern in front of the media and mass fixed to the Federal Prosecutor, because Lauber had not documented his meetings with the Fifa top. That you must do, have, he, type learned, already “as a young Auditor of the Verhöramts train”. Furthermore, in the code of criminal procedure.
The supervisor therefore took a measure which it has taken. It issued a “recommendation” to document that informal Meetings in the future. It wants to keep the office of the attorney General.
However, Lauber’s not off the hook. The oversight also currently conducts a Preliminary investigation and will decide until the beginning of may, whether you are initiating a disciplinary action against the Federal Prosecutor. Lauber re-election in the summer, which seemed certain is suddenly at risk. The System of crushing, as you knew it, imploded. This fits in with that of the Federal Prosecutor, is actually a natural-born crisis Communicator, silent now in their own cause, at least in Public.
Tariff
His last big appearance he had in November, as the crisis with the Football-Leaks-revelations began. Then Lauber defended his habit to meet outside of all the logs and without any transparency with stakeholders from major criminal cases, through all the floors. Such Meetings were “a fundamental part of my administration,” he said. And Lauber gave its electoral authority, the Parliament, equal to the Tariff: “If you want me again, then with this Belief.”
At the press conference in November, Lauber said, he had taken Infantino only twice. A fateful information, because it seems to be wrong. A special Prosecutor came across references to a third informal meeting of the two mighty men Meet in the summer of 2017. However, by the alleged parties Involved want to remember no more of it.
With one, two wrong sets Lauber playful a large part of the confidence he had built up.
First national councils to urge Lauber, to be a candidate for a third term. A Federal Prosecutor who suffers from memory weakness, a lie, maybe even not going. Or is it for the secretive or forgotten third, a statement Meeting yet? Even a relatively innocuous?
All these questions are in the room, but Lauber, the eloquent explainer, is off the grid. The confidence that he had personally given his authority after the crisis years of return fades with each passing day. He had brought, as from 2012, the so-much-needed rest in the office of the attorney General – with the exception of the excitement of a Swiss arrest warrant for three German tax investigators, and of one thing that can be seen in retrospect as the original sin: In his second year on the met Lauber the dazzling Swiss Ex-Ambassador to Berlin, Thomas Borer, pre-dinner drinks. Borer lobbyierte then aggressive for the Regime in Kazakhstan. In an E-Mail boasted Borer after its Kazakh clients, he could have access to a “key employee of the Federal public Prosecutor’s office”, the “important inside information”.
As Borers Mail was in public, had to Lauber justify themselves for the first Time for an informal meeting. But he made it more so.
He sat in the saddle, and had, after a reorganization as the first Federal Prosecutor, no Federal Council more about yourself. And its more weakly doped supervision, composed of the militia of learning, let him give for years to come.
From the Position of strength, increased Lauber use: He designed his authority and dismissed in part illegally – several years of prosecutors. At the end of may 2015, the big blow came in The Switzerland had, at the Request of the U.S. Department of justice, several football officials, who were relegated for a Fifa Congress in Zurich’s Baur au Lac. Parallel to this, the Federal government opened a criminal proceedings advocacy in Switzerland and around 25 of their own football. Lauber authority determined against the greatest in world sport: Blatter, Platini, Beckenbauer.
a debacle
The Federal government played a bar at the same time, a key role in two major international cases, even the Fifa complex seem small: in the case of the detection of the kickback system the Brazilian energy giant Petrobras, and in this multi-billion scandal of the Malaysian state Fund 1MDB. To were alone the Brazil-investigations-money laundering-suspicious activity reports in Switzerland until today, to around 1000 banking relationships and, 120 legal assistance. The Federal Prosecutor’s office opened yourself 70 criminal cases and confiscated 700 million Swiss francs. About half of them could they report back to Injured. To Be A Success.
With football, Petrobras and 1MDB, the authority came to the stop. Corruption-fighter and organizer Lauber, however, was in his Element. With informal Meetings and many trips he tried, the giant cases. However, not only in Fifa’s case, the sometimes unorthodox approach is now to boomerang. The “Luzerner Zeitung” has made another debacle of publicity: The Federal criminal court, said recently the Director of Proceedings, in a 800-million-money-laundering-case-for-conscious. The reason is that the Swiss Prosecutor had met informally with Uzbek investigators. To Tashkent he had traveled with a Federal Prosecutor Lauber.
Now have to learn a new chief investigator in the tricky thing. What you don’t want to Lauber, threatens, here and in other proceedings: new Contaminated sites. Meanwhile, the Federal government has not reduced advocacy once again, the “old” Contaminated sites. So the Tamil Tiger-held case, just back for a week, the terrorist Department of the processing of more recent Jihad cases.
statements are expected
If the office of the attorney General, your pace picks up, threatening to cases becoming time-barred, for example, the headline-grabbing “summer fairy tale”-proceedings against the former top of the German football Federation and organizers of the 2006 world Cup in Germany. Throughout the football complex, a Banker, for forgery has been only buzzing a criminal command. These Mini-success announced the office of the attorney General just on 16. June 2017, the date of the alleged third meeting of Lauber and Infantino, comprising an additional explosive Note: No half a year later, the Federal Prosecutor a criminal case because of a dubious TV-rights-Deals, in the center of a contract with Infantinos signature as a Uefa-legal-in-chief.
parliamentarians expect explanations. In three weeks, the court will decide, Commission, whether to recommend to Lauber for re-election. It might be tight for squeezing.
(editing Tamedia)
Created: 25.04.2019, 20:55 PM
