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(Bloomberg) -- A Swiss prosecutor is probing whether the late Saudi king broke any laws when he transferred $100 million to a fund controlled by fellow royal Juan Carlos I of Spain in 2008. Last month, a hearing was held behind closed doors in Geneva to discuss a legal opinion that prosecutor Yves Bertossa sought from scholars on whether the payment by the late King Abdullah could constitute a crime under Saudi law, according to documents seen by Bloomberg. Bertossa first solicited the advice in a July 23 letter to the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law. Bertossa’s request for an opinion cam...

On September 16, 2018, Juan Carlos I wrote in his own handwriting a letter to Álvaro de Orleans, 73, a distant cousin who was in trouble at the time. The Geneva prosecutor Yves Bertossa had registered weeks before the office in Geneva of the wealth manager Arturo Fasana and found the bank movements of two foundations, Zagatka and Lucum, with millionaire accounts in Swiss banks. The first of them, Zagatka, was in the name of Álvaro de Orleans and his son. Spanish King Emeritus Juan Carlos I during burial Placido Arango in Madrid on Monday 17 February 2020 17/02/2020 A dozen businessmen frien...

3 Min Read GENEVA (Reuters) - Israeli businessman Beny Steinmetz on Tuesday denied any role in corruption or forgery linked to mining rights his company secured in Guinea, describing himself as the owner and company ambassador but not the boss. FILE PHOTO: Israeli billionaire Beny Steinmetz arrives to a courthouse to defend himself against corruption and forgery charges in connection with mining contracts in Guinea, in Geneva, Switzerland January 11, 2021. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse Steinmetz was indicted in August 2019 by a Geneva prosecutor who accused him and two aides of paying, or having pa...

/ Three members of the Art/Punk/Activist band Pussy Riot have been arrested in Russia. On 23rd January nationwide demonstrations calling for the release of jailed opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, who was poisoned by Vladimir Putin on a flight from Siberia turned violent when police attacked the crowd. Pussy Riot’s Masha Alekhina, Viktoria Naraxsa, and Lucy Shteyn were included in a list of artists/protesters removed by police in Moscow. Both Narakhsa and Shteyn were given a 10-day jail sentence and authorities fined and released Alekhina on 30,000 rubles $400. Revelations that Putin has ...

Swiss prosecutors confirmed Tuesday they are dropping a case brought by Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev against a top art dealer he accused of swin