Swiss voters overwhelmingly approved on Sunday blocking foreign-based betting sites in a high-stakes referendum on a new gambling law designed to prevent addiction, but which opponents said amounted to internet censorship. A full 72.9 percent of voters came out in favour of the new gambling law, final
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(Bloomberg) — Swiss prosecutors asked a Zurich court to sentence Rudolf Elmer, a former employee of Julius Baer Group Ltd., to three and a half years in prison for revealing details of client accounts via WikiLeaks. “He calls himself a whistleblower, thus dressing himself in a cloak
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The courtroom victory of the only Swiss banker to beat the U.S. in a trial over offshore tax evasion may embolden other indicted financial workers to leave a legal limbo some have occupied more than five years.Twenty-five offshore bankers, lawyers and advisers have yet to answer U.S.
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