Rio Tinto managers sentenced to prison for bribery
GenevaLunch News Four senior executives with Rio Tinto have been sentenced to prison terms varying from 7 to 14 years and fines. Personal assets of two of the men have also been confiscated. The four...
View ArticleBrig police ex-boss sentenced, child sex charges
GenevaLunch News Sion, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - The former second in command of the police in canton Valais was fined CHF16,500 and handed a suspended sentence of 100 days of community service 1...
View ArticleGenocide guilty verdict for Rwanda’s ex-army bosses
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Four of Rwanda’s to former army leaders were handed long prison sentences Tuesday 17 May by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, sitting in session in...
View ArticleSexual abuser in Brig given 13 years in prison
GenevaLunch News SION, SWITZERLAND – The man in his 60s charged with drugging and sexually abusing children, mainly in Vaud and Valais over several years, has been given a 13-year prison sentence by a...
View ArticleArgentina’s Angel of Death gets life
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Alfredo Astiz, a former Navy spy, was sentenced 26 October to life in prison, one of a dozen police and militia officers from the military dictatorship that ruled...
View ArticleFather who took axe to daughter gets 17 years
GenevaLunch News ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – The 53-year-old father who killed his teenage daughter in Zurich 10 May 2010 with a hatchet has been given 17 years in prison for the murder. He and his wife,...
View ArticleStanford gets 111 years, slightly fewer than Madoff
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Big spender Texan Allen Stanford had his day in court, and it wasn’t a good one for him. But the middle income clients who say he fleeced them of their limited...
View ArticleBahrain doctors, hospital staff given prison terms
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Nine of the 15 doctors and medical staff at a hospital in Bahrain, accused of helping the opposition during the 2011 protests in the country, have been given...
View ArticleLandmark French case: psychiatrist sentenced over patient’s murder
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A psychiatrist in Marseilles has been given a one-year suspended sentence for manslaughter for an axe murder committed by her patient. The doctor was found guilty...
View ArticleMan gets 12 years for giving Aids to clients
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A self-proclaimed healer who was found guilty of intentionally infecting 16 of his clients with Aids was sentenced Friday 22 March by a Bern court to 12 years and...
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