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.
Joint press release from the OAG, fedpol, and the NCSC - In recent months, the hacker group AKIRA has stepped up its activities in Switzerland. Around two hundred companies have been victims of ransomware attacks, with damages currently amounting to several millions of Swiss francs, and to several hundreds of millions of dollars worldwide. Since April 2024, the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland (OAG) has been conducting criminal proceedings. The investigation is being coordinated by the Federal Office of Police (fedpol), in close cooperation with the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and the authorities in several other countries that are affected. The Swiss authorities stress the importance of contacting them before taking any action and of the need to file a criminal complaint.
22.08.2025: Banque J. Safra Sarasin SA and one of its former relationship managers convicted by summary penalty order
The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland (OAG) has issued a summary penalty order sentencing Banque J. Safra Sarasin SA (hereinafter: Banque Safra) to a fine of CHF 3.5 million for failing to take all reasonable and necessary organisational measures to prevent the commission or attempted commission of aggravated money laundering acts between November 2011 and May 2014, for a total amount of approximately USD 71 million. Banque Safra having also paid a settlement amount of CHF 16 million to Petrobras, private claimant in the proceedings, the OAG has not ordered a compensatory claim. The OAG also sentenced a former employee of Banque Safra to a six months’ suspended custodial sentence for aggravated money laundering acts committed between November 2011 and July 2014 while working for another Swiss bank, involving a total amount of USD 29.2 million.
22.08.2025: 1MDB case: bank JP Morgan Suisse convicted by summary penalty order
At the conclusion of criminal proceedings initiated in November 2022, the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland (OAG) has issued a summary penalty order and partial abandonment of the proceedings. The OAG sentenced J.P. Morgan (Suisse) SA (JP Morgan Suisse) to a fine of CHF 3 million for failing to take all reasonable and necessary organisational measures to prevent acts of aggravated money laundering. The fund transfers took place between October 2014 and July 2015. The outbound transactions totalled approximately CHF 174 million. This conviction is part of a series of proceedings conducted by the OAG relating to the embezzlement of assets from the Malaysian sovereign wealth fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB). The private claimant in the case, 1MDB, stated that it will be compensated in the amount of MYR 1.4 billion. For this reason, the OAG has not ordered a compensatory claim.
