Satirical Prize –
PLR President Thierry Burkart receives the 2024 Golden Sabot
The prize was also awarded to former Schwyz UDC state councilor Alex Kuprecht. He rewards “preventers of informing”
Published today at 7:36 a.m.
The satirical prize goes to Thierry Burkart (above) and Alex Kuprecht due to a postulate of the Economics Committee of the Council of States, as part of the publication in February 2022 of “Suisse Secrets” on problematic accounts at Credit Suisse.
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PLR President and Aargau State Councilor Thierry Burkart as well as former Schwyz UDC State Councilor Alex Kuprecht are the winners of the 2024 Golden Sabot. This satirical prize is awarded each year by the 300 journalists of the investigativ investigative network .ch and reward for “preventers of informing”.
It falls to the two politicians due to a postulate of the Economics Committee of the Council of States, as part of the publication in February 2022 of “Suisse Secrets” on problematic accounts at Credit Suisse.
In the wake of these revelations, the National Council adopted a motion aimed at strengthening press freedom in the banking and financial sector. The Council of States had completely turned the tide, explains investigativ.ch, by adopting in December 2023 a postulate from its Economics Committee entitled “Subsequent use of data obtained illegally”.
Alex Kuprecht was then chairman of the Economics Committee of the Council of States and Thierry Burkart was the committee’s rapporteur during the debates in the Chamber of Cantons.
Tighten the provisions
By this postulate, the Council of States instructed the Federal Council to examine whether the publication of illegally collected data should be punished. In the eyes of the research network, this would amount to toughening the provisions in force. Not only banking data would be affected, but all confidential information in general.
The publication of “Suisse Secrets” in February 2022 triggered a political debate in Switzerland on media freedom. An international research network (Süddeutsche Zeitung, Guardian, Le Monde and New York Times among others) then criticized Credit Suisse for having accepted autocrats, drug traffickers, war criminals and criminals among its clients for years. suspected human traffickers.
The Swiss media did not participate in the investigation, as the law prohibits Swiss journalists from publishing information on banking data under penalty of prosecution.
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