Compliance Radar
Who was sanctioned, and for what?
Fines, court rulings and incidents from Europe and North America: 756 cases from 32 jurisdictions, each with an official source and checked against that source before publication. Filter by country, area of law and sector. Click a chart to drill down one level.
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Where?
by authority- Bundesanwaltschaft 4 cases 20 % · €10.1m
- Eidgenössische Finanzmarktaufsicht (FINMA) 4 cases 20 % · €14m
- Eidgenössischer Datenschutz- und Öffentlichkeitsbeauftragter (EDÖB) 3 cases 15 % ·
- Wettbewerbskommission (WEKO) 3 cases 15 % · €19.5m
- Bundesanwaltschaft (BA) 2 cases 10 % · €229.4m
- Bundesstrafgericht (Strafkammer); Anklage durch die Bundesanwaltschaft 1 case 5 % · €143.3m
- Bundesverwaltungsgericht (A-3891/2025) auf Verfügung des EDÖB vom 28.04.2025 1 case 5 % ·
- Schweizerisches Bundesgericht (Vorinstanz: Kantonsgericht Freiburg, Strafappellationshof) 1 case 5 % · €112,865
- Schweizerisches Bundesgericht (Vorinstanz: Kantonsgericht Luzern) 1 case 5 % · €35,028
What for?
by area of lawAll areas of law
Who?
by sectorAll sectors
- Financial services and insurance 10 cases 50 % · €24.1m
- Construction and real estate 2 cases 10 % · €35,028
- Energy and utilities 2 cases 10 % · €233.8m
- Telecoms, IT and software 2 cases 10 % · €19.4m
- Retail and e-commerce 1 case 5 % ·
- Manufacturing and mechanical engineering 1 case 5 % · €112,865
- Steel and metals 1 case 5 % · €138.9m
- Transport, logistics and shipping 1 case 5 % · €98,722
When?
per quarter, by date of decision| Period | Cases | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Q3 2023 | 0 | — |
| Q4 2023 | 1 | €19.4m |
| Q1 2024 | 2 | €94.5m |
| Q2 2024 | 3 | €98,722 |
| Q3 2024 | 1 | €138.9m |
| Q4 2024 | 1 | €9.98m |
| Q1 2025 | 3 | €144.4m |
| Q2 2025 | 1 | €2.13m |
| Q3 2025 | 4 | €6.96m |
| Q4 2025 | 1 | €112,865 |
| Q1 2026 | 1 | — |
| Q2 2026 | 2 | — |
| Q3 2026 | 0 | — |
20 cases
22 Jun 2026 Inkasso-Team AGFederal Administrative Court upholds FDPIC: Inkasso-Team was not allowed to publish debtor data Order
The debt collection company posted personal data of alleged debtors on the internet, some of it particularly sensitive, in order to obtain information on their whereabouts and to warn third parties. The Swiss Federal Administrative Court (Bundesverwaltungsgericht, A-3891/2025) upheld the ruling of the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (EDÖB) of 28 April 2025, according to which this constitutes an unjustified violation of privacy.
Publicly naming and shaming debtors cannot be justified under data protection law – debt collection must use less intrusive means.
- Authority / court
- Bundesverwaltungsgericht (A-3891/2025) auf Verfügung des EDÖB vom 28.04.2025
- Area of law
- Data protection · Data subject rights and transparency
- Legal basis
- DSG Art. 6, Art. 19, Art. 31
- Action
- Order
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Financial services and insurance
- Published
- 20 Aug 2026
- Bundesverwaltungsgericht bestätigt Entscheid des EDÖB Press release of an authority
- Urteil des Bundesverwaltungsgerichts A-3891/2025 vom 22. Juni 2026 Court decision
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17 Apr 2026 Cream della Cream Switzerland GmbH und Philipp Plein International AGFDPIC ruling: Philipp Plein and Cream della Cream ignored objections to advertising Order
Both companies continued to use e-mail addresses and telephone numbers from online purchases for advertising, although data subjects had objected – in some cases after deletion had been confirmed. The Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (Eidgenössischer Datenschutz- und Öffentlichkeitsbeauftragter, EDÖB) ordered the processing for advertising to cease and the data to be deleted on request.
An objection to advertising must take effect across all systems – a confirmed deletion followed by further advertising violates the principle of good faith.
Handling objections to advertising and deletion requests
- Authority / court
- Eidgenössischer Datenschutz- und Öffentlichkeitsbeauftragter (EDÖB)
- Area of law
- Data protection · Marketing and consent
- Legal basis
- DSG Art. 6, Art. 30 Abs. 2 lit. b, Art. 31
- Action
- Order
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Retail and e-commerce
- Published
- 26 Jun 2026
- Verfügung des EDÖB gegen Cream della Cream Switzerland GmbH und Philipp Plein International AG Press release of an authority
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27 Feb 2026 MBaer Merchant Bank AGFINMA withdraws MBaer Merchant Bank's licence over serious anti-money laundering deficiencies Order
Following enforcement proceedings, the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) found serious, systematic deficiencies in anti-money laundering due diligence, organisation and risk management; the bank enabled clients to circumvent official asset freezes and executed transactions for sanctioned persons. FINMA had withdrawn the bank's licence and ordered its liquidation; with the withdrawal of the appeal before the Federal Administrative Court, the orders took effect on 27 February 2026. The day before, FinCEN had proposed designating the bank as an institution of primary money laundering concern.
Systematic anti-money laundering and sanctions deficiencies can cost a bank its licence – not just money.
- Authority / court
- Eidgenössische Finanzmarktaufsicht (FINMA)
- Area of law
- Money laundering and terrorist financing · Internal controls
- Legal basis
- Schweizer Geldwäschereirecht und Bankenaufsichtsrecht (laut FINMA)
- Action
- Order
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Financial services and insurance
- Employees
- 50 to 249
- Published
- 27 Feb 2026
- FINMA-Verfahren: MBaer Merchant Bank AG in Liquidation Press release of an authority
- Massnahmen bei MBaer Merchant Bank AG Press release of an authority
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12 Nov 2025 Fatal fall of trailer chassis: managing director and safety officer convicted €112,865
In 2018, an employee died on the premises of a company (anonymised in the judgment as ‘D. AG’) when a steel lorry trailer chassis weighing around two tonnes fell while being lifted by crane: an unprotected lifting sling tore on a sharp edge, edge protection was missing, the employees had not been trained to keep out of the danger zone of suspended loads, and requirements imposed by SUVA (the Swiss accident insurance fund) in 2013/2014 had not been implemented. The Swiss Federal Supreme Court (Bundesgericht) upheld the convictions for negligent homicide against the managing director (180 daily rates of 410 CHF, suspended) and the safety officer (180 daily rates of 170 CHF, suspended), totalling 104,400 CHF (6B_521/2025, 6B_523/2025).
In Switzerland, managing directors and safety officers are personally criminally liable for occupational safety if crane work is not organised safely.
No standing under suspended loads
Missing or inadequate training played a role in the decision.
- Authority / court
- Schweizerisches Bundesgericht (Vorinstanz: Kantonsgericht Freiburg, Strafappellationshof)
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Workplace safety and accidents
- Legal basis
- Art. 117 StGB (fahrlässige Tötung) i. V. m. Sorgfaltspflichten der Arbeitssicherheit
- Action
- Other
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Manufacturing and mechanical engineering
- Culpability
- negligent
- Mitigating circumstances
- Monetary penalties imposed on a suspended basis.
- Liability of senior managers
- Managing director and safety officer personally convicted of negligent homicide.
Original amount 104,400 CHF, converted at the ECB reference rate of 12 Nov 2025.
- Bundesgericht, Urteil 6B_521/2025 vom 12.11.2025 Court decision
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30 Sep 2025 Scaffolder left injured undeclared worker without help – Federal Supreme Court upholds sentence €35,028
In February 2020, a scaffolder employed without a work permit fell around 4.5 m from scaffolding; the owner and managing director of the scaffolding company (anonymised in the judgment as ‘A.A. GmbH’) did not call the emergency services despite knowing of the accident, and had employed two Kosovars without permits. The Swiss Federal Supreme Court (Bundesgericht) upheld the conviction by the Lucerne Cantonal Court (Kantonsgericht Luzern): a suspended custodial sentence of 9 months and an unconditional monetary penalty of 80 daily rates of 410 CHF (32,800 CHF), plus a fine of 2,000 CHF that also covers traffic offences (6B_163/2024).
After an accident at work, first aid takes priority over everything else – attempting to conceal illegal employment makes the case more serious under criminal law.
- Authority / court
- Schweizerisches Bundesgericht (Vorinstanz: Kantonsgericht Luzern)
- Area of law
- Health and safety and employment law · Minimum wage and undeclared work
- Legal basis
- Art. 128 StGB (Unterlassung der Nothilfe); Ausländer- und Integrationsgesetz (Beschäftigung ohne Bewilligung)
- Action
- Custodial sentence
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Construction and real estate
- Culpability
- intentional
- Liability of senior managers
- Owner and managing director convicted personally.
Original amount 32,800 CHF, converted at the ECB reference rate of 30 Sep 2025.
- Bundesgericht, Urteil 6B_163/2024 vom 30.09.2025 Court decision
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25 Aug 2025 PAUPE HOLDING SA, Bitusag S.A., Bitusag Neuchâtel SA, Wyss Fils SA, Prodo SA, Duckert SAWEKO fines road maintenance firms in Jura/Neuchâtel over bid rigging Fine
Regional suppliers of surface treatments and chip sealing in road maintenance colluded on bids and allocated territories. Switzerland's Competition Commission (Wettbewerbskommission, WEKO) imposed sanctions on Bitusag/Paupe (jointly and severally, CHF 640,000–990,000, exact amount redacted), Wyss Fils (CHF 44,000–74,000), Prodo (CHF 760) and Duckert (CHF 0) and approved amicable settlements; the investigation against Colas Suisse was discontinued.
Small regional road builders are also sanctioned – cover bids and territorial protection must disappear from corporate culture.
Cover bids and territorial agreements in regional road construction
- Authority / court
- Wettbewerbskommission (WEKO)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Cartels and collusion
- Legal basis
- Art. 5 Abs. 3 i.V.m. Abs. 1 KG, Art. 49a Abs. 1 KG
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Construction and real estate
- Mitigating circumstances
- Amicable settlements; leniency programme (Duckert free of sanctions)
- Enduits superficiels et gravillonnage : Décision du 25 août 2025 Decision of an authority
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22 Aug 2025 Bank J. Safra Sarasin AGBank J. Safra Sarasin: 3.5 million CHF fine for money laundering in the Petrobras complex €3.73m
Between 2011 and 2014, the bank did not take all the necessary organisational precautions, with the result that bribes flowed to Petrobras executives through several account relationships (around 71 million USD in attempted or completed aggravated money laundering). Fine of 3.5 million CHF; because of a settlement of 16 million CHF with Petrobras, the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland (Bundesanwaltschaft, OAG) waived a compensation claim. A former asset manager was separately given a suspended prison sentence.
Unusual payment flows involving clients close to PEPs must be escalated and, if necessary, rejected – responsibility lies with the bank as an organisation.
Anti-money laundering and PEP clients
- Authority / court
- Bundesanwaltschaft
- Area of law
- Money laundering and terrorist financing · Internal controls
- Legal basis
- Art. 102 Abs. 2 StGB i. V. m. Art. 305bis Abs. 1 und 2 StGB
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Financial services and insurance
- Mitigating circumstances
- Time elapsed since the offence, organisational corrective measures after the affair became known; no compensation claim because of the payment of 16 million CHF to Petrobras.
- Liability of senior managers
- A former asset manager was separately given a suspended prison sentence of six months for aggravated money laundering (offences committed at another Swiss bank).
- Published
- 22 Aug 2025
Original amount 3,500,000 CHF, converted at the ECB reference rate of 22 Aug 2025.
- Bundesanwaltschaft verurteilt Bank J. Safra Sarasin AG (Strafbefehl) Press release of an authority
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22 Aug 2025 J.P. Morgan (Suisse) SAJ.P. Morgan (Suisse): 3 million CHF fine in the 1MDB complex for deficient anti-money laundering controls €3.2m
Between October 2014 and July 2015, around 174 million CHF from predicate offences in the 1MDB complex passed through the bank in 43 transfers, even though negative information about the Petrosaudi managers involved was publicly available. The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland (Bundesanwaltschaft) convicted the bank by summary penalty order and imposed 3 million CHF; a compensation claim was waived because the 1MDB fund is being compensated as a private claimant.
Publicly available negative information about clients must feed into the risk assessment and be capable of stopping transactions.
Customer due diligence and adverse media screening
- Authority / court
- Bundesanwaltschaft
- Area of law
- Money laundering and terrorist financing · Customer due diligence
- Legal basis
- Art. 102 Abs. 2 StGB i. V. m. Art. 305bis Abs. 1 und 2 StGB
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Financial services and insurance
- Mitigating circumstances
- Time elapsed since the offence, very good cooperation in the proceedings, compensation of the private claimant (1MDB).
- Published
- 22 Aug 2025
Original amount 3,000,000 CHF, converted at the ECB reference rate of 22 Aug 2025.
- Fall 1MDB: Bank JP Morgan Suisse mit Strafbefehl verurteilt Press release of an authority
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17 Jun 2025 Banque Pictet et Cie SABanque Pictet: 2 million CHF fine for laundering Petrobras bribes €2.13m
Between 2010 and 2013, an asset manager at the bank validated 54 transfers through which bribes of around 4.1 million USD connected with SBM Offshore's charter contracts with Petrobras were concealed. The bank had not classified high-risk accounts as such and had inadequately monitored transfers; the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland (Bundesanwaltschaft) imposed a fine of 2 million CHF, and the former employee received a suspended prison sentence.
Risk classification and transaction monitoring must take effect before individual relationship managers approve payments.
High-risk clients and transaction monitoring
- Authority / court
- Bundesanwaltschaft
- Area of law
- Money laundering and terrorist financing · Internal controls
- Legal basis
- Art. 102 Abs. 2 StGB i. V. m. Art. 305bis und Art. 322septies StGB
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Financial services and insurance
- Mitigating circumstances
- Time elapsed since the offence, very good cooperation, organisational corrective measures after the Petrobras affair became known.
- Liability of senior managers
- Former asset manager: suspended prison sentence of six months (probation period of two years).
- Published
- 17 Jun 2025
Original amount 2,000,000 CHF, converted at the ECB reference rate of 17 Jun 2025.
- Banque Pictet et Cie SA und ehemaliger Vermögensverwalter per Strafbefehl verurteilt Press release of an authority
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27 Feb 2025 Morgan Stanley (Switzerland) GmbHMorgan Stanley (Switzerland): 1 million CHF fine for organisational deficiency in money laundering case €1.06m
In 2010, the company's legal predecessor did not take all necessary and reasonable organisational precautions to prevent a relationship manager from committing aggravated money laundering with assets derived from bribery offences in Greece. The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland (Bundesanwaltschaft) concluded the proceedings with a summary penalty order of 1 million CHF.
Under corporate criminal law, organisational deficiencies do not become time-barred when the employee leaves – controls must be demonstrably effective.
- Authority / court
- Bundesanwaltschaft
- Area of law
- Money laundering and terrorist financing · Internal controls
- Legal basis
- Art. 102 Abs. 2 StGB i. V. m. Art. 305bis StGB
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Financial services and insurance
- Published
- 27 Feb 2025
Original amount 1,000,000 CHF, converted at the ECB reference rate of 27 Feb 2025.
- Bundesanwaltschaft schliesst Strafuntersuchung gegen Morgan Stanley (Switzerland) GmbH mit Strafbefehl ab Press release of an authority
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31 Jan 2025 Trafigura Beheer B.V.Swiss Federal Criminal Court (Bundesstrafgericht) convicts Trafigura of bribery in Angola €143.3m
Between 2009 and 2011, more than 4 million EUR and more than 600,000 USD were paid to a senior employee of the Angolan state oil distributor in order to promote ship chartering and bunkering business of the Trafigura group. The court convicted the then parent company for lacking rules on the supervision of intermediaries, imposing a fine of 3 million CHF and a compensatory claim (Ersatzforderung) of 145,634,268 USD (amount converted at the ECB rate of 31 January 2025: 148,933,982 USD in total); three individuals received prison sentences. It was the first judgment of the Federal Criminal Court on corporate criminal liability for foreign bribery; it is not final.
In Switzerland, companies are liable if their organisation fails to prevent bribery – and the compensatory claim can exceed the fine many times over.
Payments via intermediaries to employees of state-owned oil companies
- Authority / court
- Bundesstrafgericht (Strafkammer); Anklage durch die Bundesanwaltschaft
- Area of law
- Bribery and corruption · Bribery of public officials
- Legal basis
- Art. 102 StGB i. V. m. Art. 322septies StGB (Bestechung fremder Amtsträger); SK.2023.49
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Energy and utilities
- Employees
- 10,000 or more
- Culpability
- intentional
- Liability of senior managers
- A former senior manager of the group received a prison sentence of 32 months (12 of them unsuspended), the intermediary 24 months suspended, and the Angolan public official 36 months (names anonymised).
- Published
- 31 Jan 2025
Original amount 148,933,982 USD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 31 Jan 2025.
- Bundesstrafgericht: Verurteilung einer juristischen und drei natürlicher Personen wegen Bestechung fremder Amtsträger (SK.2023.49) Court press release
- TRAFIGURA BEHEER BV und drei natürliche Personen vor Bundesstrafgericht angeklagt Press release of an authority
- Bundesstrafgericht, Dispositiv SK.2023.49 vom 31.01.2025 Court decision
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29 Jan 2025 Cembra Money Bank AGFDPIC ruling: Cembra Money Bank answered access requests too late and in generic terms Order
From December 2023 to September 2024, Cembra answered 9 of 13 access requests after the 30-day deadline had expired, and responded to all 13 people only with standard letters instead of the data actually processed about them. The Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (Eidgenössischer Datenschutz- und Öffentlichkeitsbeauftragter, EDÖB) required the bank to provide the data subsequently.
Access requests need a process with resources and deadline monitoring – boilerplate text is no substitute for genuine disclosure of data.
Handling access requests
- Authority / court
- Eidgenössischer Datenschutz- und Öffentlichkeitsbeauftragter (EDÖB)
- Area of law
- Data protection · Data subject rights and transparency
- Legal basis
- DSG Art. 25 Abs. 2 lit. b, Art. 25 Abs. 7
- Action
- Order
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Financial services and insurance
- Published
- 1 Jul 2025
- Verfügung des EDÖB gegen die Cembra Money Bank AG Press release of an authority
- Verfügung des EDÖB vom 29. Januar 2025 gegen Cembra Money Bank AG Decision of an authority
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12 Dec 2024 Leonteq AG (Finanzgruppe Leonteq)Leonteq: distribution via unregulated partners – confiscation of 9.3 million CHF in profits €9.98m
The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) found serious breaches of risk management obligations and of the requirement to guarantee irreproachable business conduct: the financial group monitored its distribution chain inadequately and in some cases worked with dubious, unregulated distributors that sold products in countries not intended for them without authorisation. FINMA ordered governance requirements, the termination of these relationships, the appointment of an audit agent and the confiscation of 9.3 million CHF in profits; the ruling was not yet final at the time of publication.
Anyone who distributes via third parties is liable for their regulatory status – sales partners require due diligence just like customers.
- Authority / court
- Eidgenössische Finanzmarktaufsicht (FINMA)
- Area of law
- Capital markets and financial supervision · Organisational requirements
- Legal basis
- Finanzmarktaufsichtsgesetz (FINMAG)
- Action
- Disgorgement of profits
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Financial services and insurance
- Mitigating circumstances
- Good cooperation in the proceedings; Leonteq had already strengthened compliance and distribution controls of its own accord and terminated relationships with suspicious distributors
Original amount 9,300,000 CHF, converted at the ECB reference rate of 12 Dec 2024.
- FINMA schliesst Verfahren gegen Leonteq ab Press release of an authority
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5 Aug 2024 Glencore International AGOffice of the Attorney General of Switzerland: summary penalty order against Glencore over bribery in Congo €138.9m
Glencore failed to take all reasonable organisational precautions to prevent the bribery of foreign public officials by a business partner in connection with the acquisition of minority stakes in two mining companies in the DR Congo in 2011. The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland (Bundesanwaltschaft, BA) issued a summary penalty order (Strafbefehl) imposing a fine of 2 million CHF and a compensatory claim of 150 million USD (amount converted at the ECB rate of 5 August 2024: 152,357,266 USD in total); further matters from 2007–2017 were discontinued.
Companies are also liable for bribery by business partners if they have not taken adequate due diligence and control measures.
Corruption risks posed by business partners in acquisitions of stakes
- Authority / court
- Bundesanwaltschaft (BA)
- Area of law
- Bribery and corruption · Bribery of public officials
- Legal basis
- Art. 102 Abs. 2 StGB (Unternehmensverantwortlichkeit) i. V. m. Bestechung fremder Amtsträger; Strafbefehl
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Steel and metals
- Employees
- 10,000 or more
- Culpability
- intentional
- Published
- 5 Aug 2024
Original amount 152,357,266 USD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 5 Aug 2024.
- Bundesanwaltschaft schliesst Strafuntersuchung gegen Glencore International AG mit Strafbefehl und Einstellungsverfügung ab Press release of an authority
- OM: Geldboete Fleurette Properties Ltd wegens omkoping in Congo (erwähnt Strafbefehl gegen Glencore vom 05.08.2024) Press release of an authority
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18 Jun 2024 HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) SAFINMA: HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) breached anti-money laundering rules for two PEPs Order
The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) found that, for two politically exposed persons, the bank insufficiently clarified the origin and purpose of assets – transactions of more than 300 million USD from a Lebanese state institution between 2002 and 2015 – and only reported them to the reporting office in September 2020. It ordered a review of all PEP relationships, a ban on new PEP relationships until the review is completed and the appointment of an audit agent; the decision was not final at the time of publication (date of the announcement used as decision date).
In PEP relationships, document the origin and purpose of large payments; a report made years later is no report.
Dealing with politically exposed persons (PEPs)
- Authority / court
- Eidgenössische Finanzmarktaufsicht (FINMA)
- Area of law
- Money laundering and terrorist financing · Customer due diligence
- Legal basis
- Schweizer Geldwäschereirecht (laut FINMA)
- Action
- Order
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Financial services and insurance
- Published
- 18 Jun 2024
- FINMA-Verfahren: HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) SA hat gegen Geldwäschereiregeln verstossen Press release of an authority
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10 Jun 2024 Favre SA Transports Internationaux TIR Martigny; weitere Parteien: Favre et Studer SA, RETRIPA VALAIS SA, TMR, Centre de Transferts Martigny SAWEKO: sanction against Valais transport and waste disposal firm over bid rigging €98,722
Companies engaged in the collection, transport and disposal of waste in Valais colluded on bids. WEKO imposed a sanction of CHF 95,138 on Favre SA TIR Martigny (Favre et Studer: CHF 0), approved amicable settlements and apportioned the procedural costs among four companies.
Municipal waste disposal contracts are a focus of competition authorities – contacts about bids among competitors are off-limits, including among SMEs.
Collusion in municipal waste disposal tenders
- Authority / court
- Wettbewerbskommission (WEKO)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Cartels and collusion
- Legal basis
- Art. 5 Abs. 3 i.V.m. Abs. 1 KG, Art. 49a Abs. 1 KG
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Transport, logistics and shipping
- Mitigating circumstances
- Amicable settlements; leniency programme (Favre et Studer free of sanctions)
Original amount 95,138 CHF, converted at the ECB reference rate of 10 Jun 2024.
- Transport de marchandises et déchets en Valais : Décision du 10 juin 2024 Decision of an authority
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1 May 2024 Xplain AG; Bundesamt für Polizei (fedpol); Bundesamt für Zoll und Grenzsicherheit (BAZG)FDPIC: data protection infringements at Xplain, fedpol and FOCBS after ransomware attack Other
Following the hacker attack on the IT service provider Xplain, the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (Eidgenössischer Datenschutz- und Öffentlichkeitsbeauftragter, EDÖB) found that personal data of the Federal Office of Police (fedpol) and the Federal Office for Customs and Border Security (BAZG) had reached Xplain via support processes without the necessary data protection safeguards. Xplain subsequently retained the data in breach of data protection law and partly in breach of contract.
Real data does not belong in service providers' support and test environments – clients must control disclosure and deletion.
Passing real data to service providers for support
- Authority / court
- Eidgenössischer Datenschutz- und Öffentlichkeitsbeauftragter (EDÖB)
- Area of law
- Data protection · Data processors
- Legal basis
- Datenschutzgesetz (DSG)
- Action
- Other
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Telecoms, IT and software
- Published
- 1 May 2024
- EDÖB schliesst Untersuchungen gegen das Unternehmen Xplain und die Bundesämter fedpol und BAZG ab Press release of an authority
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25 Mar 2024 Banque Audi (Suisse) SAFINMA confiscates 3.9 million CHF in profits from Banque Audi (Suisse) €4.01m
The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) found serious infringements of anti-money laundering rules in PEP relationships: insufficient clarification of the origin of assets, failure to report to the reporting office despite unexplained transaction purposes and a serious breach of the duty to provide information, because a critical internal audit report was not handed over. It confiscated 3.9 million CHF in profits, imposed a capital surcharge of 19 million CHF and a two-year ban on new PEP and high-risk relationships (date of the announcement used as decision date).
Withholding critical audit reports from the supervisory authority considerably aggravates a money laundering case.
PEP clarifications and openness towards the supervisory authority
- Authority / court
- Eidgenössische Finanzmarktaufsicht (FINMA)
- Area of law
- Money laundering and terrorist financing · Suspicious activity reports
- Legal basis
- Schweizer Geldwäschereirecht; Gewinneinziehung und Auskunftspflicht nach Finanzmarktaufsichtsrecht (laut FINMA)
- Action
- Disgorgement of profits
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Financial services and insurance
- Published
- 25 Mar 2024
Original amount 3,900,000 CHF, converted at the ECB reference rate of 25 Mar 2024.
- FINMA-Verfahren: Banque Audi (Suisse) SA hat gegen Geldwäschereiregeln verstossen Press release of an authority
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1 Mar 2024 Gunvor SAGunvor convicted: around 86.7 million CHF over corruption in Ecuador's oil business €90.5m
The Geneva-based commodities trading house failed to take all reasonable organisational precautions to prevent foreign public officials from being bribed on its behalf in connection with the Ecuadorian oil industry from 2013 to 2017. The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland (BA) – in coordination with US authorities – ordered Gunvor to pay around 86.7 million CHF, of which 4.3 million CHF is a fine.
Commodities traders must scrutinise payments to intermediaries in government business without gaps – the confiscation of profits far exceeds the fine.
Payments via intermediaries to state-owned oil companies
- Authority / court
- Bundesanwaltschaft (BA)
- Area of law
- Bribery and corruption · Bribery of public officials
- Legal basis
- Art. 102 StGB (Unternehmensverantwortlichkeit) i. V. m. Bestechung fremder Amtsträger
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Energy and utilities
- Culpability
- intentional
- Published
- 1 Mar 2024
Original amount 86,700,000 CHF, converted at the ECB reference rate of 1 Mar 2024.
- GUNVOR SA wegen strafrechtlicher Verantwortlichkeit in Zusammenhang mit Korruptionsdelikten in Ecuador verurteilt Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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4 Dec 2023 Swisscom (Schweiz) AGWEKO: CHF 18.4 million against Swisscom over fibre network roll-out strategy €19.4m
Swisscom expanded its fibre-optic network in such a way that competitors were not given Layer 1 access from the local exchanges. WEKO considered this to be an abuse of a dominant position, imposed a sanction of CHF 18,362,014, required Swisscom to retrofit the network and imposed procedural costs of CHF 927,307.
Dominant network operators must assess infrastructure decisions for their consequences for competitors' access.
- Authority / court
- Wettbewerbskommission (WEKO)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Abuse of market power
- Legal basis
- Art. 7 Abs. 1 i.V.m. Abs. 2 lit. a und e KG, Art. 49a Abs. 1 KG
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- under appeal
- Sector
- Telecoms, IT and software
- Employees
- 10,000 or more
Original amount 18,362,014 CHF, converted at the ECB reference rate of 4 Dec 2023.
- Netzbaustrategie Swisscom: Verfügung vom 4. Dezember 2023 Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link