{"title":"The Federal Act on the Restitution of Assets of Politically Exposed Persons Obtained by Unlawful Means (RIAA)","authors":"H. Elsheshtawy","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.1872826","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The Federal Act on the Restitution of Assets of Politically Exposed Persons Obtained by Unlawful Means (RIAA). As a result of these act, Switzerland is today one of the world’s leading Countries when it comes to the restitution of the assets of politically exposed persons. In a series of well reported cases, Switzerland has shown that the measures adopted have been very effective. Switzerland has returned far more money to the countries of origin than any other financial centre, amounting to a total of CHF 1.7 billion. but the measures will be more completed after the Arabic spring. Egyptian revelation will be a much hared exam for the Switzerland financial institute creditability.","PeriodicalId":289975,"journal":{"name":"MIT Political Science Department Research Paper Series","volume":"105 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"MIT Political Science Department Research Paper Series","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.1872826","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The Federal Act on the Restitution of Assets of Politically Exposed Persons Obtained by Unlawful Means (RIAA). As a result of these act, Switzerland is today one of the world’s leading Countries when it comes to the restitution of the assets of politically exposed persons. In a series of well reported cases, Switzerland has shown that the measures adopted have been very effective. Switzerland has returned far more money to the countries of origin than any other financial centre, amounting to a total of CHF 1.7 billion. but the measures will be more completed after the Arabic spring. Egyptian revelation will be a much hared exam for the Switzerland financial institute creditability.