Federal government informs: “Many refugees will probably stay longer than five years in Switzerland”

Banks, companies and lawyers, for example, are required to report sanctions. The question of when a lawyer is obliged to report a sanctioned person raises many questions. The courts have to clarify whether the attorney-client privilege is above the embargo law and the obligation to report, says Lukas Regli, Deputy Head of the Sanctions Department, State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO.