Swiss return $200m as part of Stanford fraud case
Allen Stanford in 2009 Keystone / Aaron M. Sprecher
In one of the biggest fraud cases in recent US economic history, Switzerland is handing over around $200 million (CHF178 million) to the United States.
This content was published on December 28, 2020 - 15:20
December 28, 2020 - 15:20
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The money is to be returned to the injured parties, the Federal Office of Justice (FOJ) said in a statementExternal link on Monday.
The restitution became possible after the US investment broker Allen Stanford was convicted of fraud in the US. Stanford had defrauded thousands of investors out of more than $7 billion between 2001 and 2008 with a Ponzi scheme. For this, he was sentenced to 110 years in prison in the US in 2012. The criminal assets were confiscated in favour of the injured parties.
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