Former France captain Zinedine Zidane will appear before Fifa’s disciplinary committee in Zurich on Thursday to give his account of the incident in which he headbutted an opponent in the World Cup final. The 34 year old was sent off in the closing stages of the final match of his illustrious career after butting his head into the chest of Italian defender Marco Materazzi.
Swiss justice authorities said on Thursday that they had thwarted a plot by a group of North Africans to attack a plane of the Israeli airline El Al, and had made seven arrests in the process. The Federal Prosecutor’s Office said that the individuals had been seized in sweeps, which began on May 12 in Zurich and Basel, following an investigation.
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/ 1 November 2005
Authorities will lift blocking orders on four bank accounts and return -million to Angola for use in humanitarian projects, the Swiss Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday. The money was frozen in connection with a Swiss investigation of French businessman Pierre Falcone, who was suspected of helping Angolan officials embezzle part of the African country’s debt repayment to the Russian Federation.
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/ 29 September 2004
Switzerland on Wednesday gave French authorities bank documents seized in an investigation of alleged money laundering linked to illicit arms sales to Angola. The Justice Ministry said the handover included information on seven frozen bank accounts and was made possible by a government decision that helping France in its ”Angolagate” inquiry would not compromise Switzerland’s national interests.
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/ 12 October 2003
Nigeria has lodged a request for judicial cooperation with Switzerland as part of an ongoing probe into an alleged multi-billion-dollar embezzlement by the late military dictator Sani Abacha. Abacha, who died in 1998, is suspected of having looted the Nigerian treasury to the tune of about ,2-billion.
The South African government does not support compensation lawsuits by apartheid victims against businesses, its president Thabo Mbeki reiterated here Tuesday.
Representatives from diamond producing and trading countries, as well as the diamond industry, began a meeting in the Swiss town of Interlaken on Monday in an attempt to stop ”blood” diamonds reaching world markets, Swiss officials said.