Swiss journalist risks court sentence for exposing top banker

Straits Times16 October 2026, 11:25 UTCSwitzerland

ZURICH, Oct 16 - Zurich prosecutors this week charged Swiss journalist Lukas Haessig with violating banking secrecy over reporting that set off a high-profile corporate criminal trial of the former boss of Raiffeisen Bank Switzerland, Haessig said on his financial blog Inside Paradeplatz.

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