Steinmetz plays his get out of jail card | Article Preview
Dropping earlier arguments that the evidence of corruption was fake, the mining magnate is appealing against his conviction by redefining bribery, Punishing foreign bribery is still a novel idea in Switzerland. There have been just 18 convictions since it became a crime in 2000, before which it was tax-deductible. And the prosecution of Israeli mining magnate Beny Steinmetz is turning out to be a landmark test of Switzerland's judicial system as much for the legal technicalities and the noises off as for the substance.
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