Welcome to the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland (OAG)
As the prosecutors’ office for the Swiss Confederation, the OAG is responsible for investigating and prosecuting offences that fall under federal jurisdiction, which are specified in Articles 23 and 24 of the Swiss Criminal Procedure Code and in other federal legislation.
Since 1 January 2022, Attorney General of the Swiss Confederation Stefan Blättler heads the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland. On 14 June 2023, Parliament again expressed its confidence in him by re-electing him with 209 out of 210 valid votes for the term of office from 2024 to 2027.
News
The Attorney General of the Swiss Confederation at the NADAL 2024 conference
From 26 to 28 May 2024, the Attorney General of the Swiss Confederation Stefan Blättler took part in the 15th meeting of the Network of Prosecutors General or equivalent institutions attached to the Supreme Judicial Courts of the Member States of the European Union (NADAL). This year's meeting took place in Luxembourg.Participants had the opportunity to discuss the current European case law on the retention of communications data and its impact on national legislation and criminal proceedings. Furthermore, new European initiatives in the field of justice, the role of EUROJUST in the fight against international crime and the challenges of European Public Prosecutors’ Offices in relation to the fight against fraud to the detriment of the EU’s financial interests and the related cooperation with the Member States and third countries were discussed.
Meeting between US Attorney General and the Attorney General of the Swiss Confederation
US Attorney General Merrick Garland and Swiss Attorney General Stefan Blättler met for an exchange of views.They highlighted the valuable cooperation between the two authorities in the fight against cross-border crime and discussed ways of strengthening their ties in the joint fight against money laundering and corruption.
Annual Report 2023
On 11 April 2024, the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland (OAG) published its 2023 Annual Report.This contains the annual report to the OAG's supervisory authority and provides information on the various responsibilities, activities in the past year and the challenges in criminal proceedings.It also contains various statistics on the individual offence areas. The activity report can be downloaded from this page.
Am 6. September 2024 wurden mehrere mutmassliche Mitglieder einer international agierenden kriminellen Gruppierung in Frankreich festgenommen. Gemäss aktuellem Stand der Ermittlungen könnte die Gruppierung mit rund zehn Geldautomatensprengungen in der Schweiz in Verbindung stehen. Die Bundesanwaltschaft (BA) und fedpol haben massgeblich zum Erfolg der umfassenden internationalen Ermittlungen beigetragen.
16.08.2024: Assassination of an Egyptian diplomat in Geneva in 1995: charges filed by the Office of the Attorney General
In November 1995, the then deputy head of the Egyptian mission’s trade office in Geneva was shot dead in an underground garage. The criminal proceedings in the matter initiated by the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland (OAG) had to be suspended in 2009 as the perpetrators could not be identified. New findings prompted the OAG to reopen the criminal proceedings in 2018. It is now filing charges against a 54-year-old male Ivorian-Italian dual national and a 49-year-old female Swiss-Italian dual national with the Federal Criminal Court.
05.08.2024: OAG closes its criminal investigation against Glencore International AG with a summary penalty order and an abandonment order
After four years of investigation, the OAG has closed its criminal investigation against Glencore International AG (hereinafter: Glencore). It specifically imposes a summary penalty order on the grounds of corporate responsibility for Glencore's failure to take all necessary and reasonable organizational measures with regard to the bribery of foreign public officials by a business partner in connection with the latter's acquisition of minority stakes in two mining companies in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2011. The OAG ordered Glencore to pay a fine of CHF 2 million and a compensation claim amounting to USD 150 million.
