Cassis was born to Mariarosa and Gino at the Malcantonese Hospital of Castelrotto, Ticino. He has three sisters, two older and one younger than himself. Born in Sessa, Ticino, he is a citizen of Biasca. Cassis entered late into politics, as an outsider in his forties. In the Swiss military, he was a battalion physician in the staff of the Ticino mountain troopers and later a member of the chief field physician’s staff. Cassis is married to Paola Cassis and lives in Montagnola. At birth, Cassis was an Italian citizen. In 1976 he was naturalised in Switzerland and had to give up his Italian passport. In 1991 he became a dual citizen of Switzerland and Italy. During his Federal Council candidacy in 2017, Cassis renounced his Italian citizenship.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignazio_Cassis
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Parmelin
Born 14 May 1960 is a Swiss politician serving as President of the Swiss Confederation for 2020. A member of the Social Democratic Party (SP/PS), she has been a Member of the Swiss Federal Council since 2010.
Sommaruga has served as head of the Federal Department of Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications since 2019 and previously was head of the Federal Department of Justice and Police.[2] She served as Vice President of Switzerland for the years 2014 and 2019; in 2015 Sommaruga assumed the role of President of the Swiss Confederation. Subsequently, she returned to the position in 2020.
As a leading figure in the Swiss People’s Party, he was elected by the Swiss Federal Assembly to succeed Federal Councillor Samuel Schmid in the Swiss Federal Council election of 10 December 2008 and took office on 1 January 2009.
Maurer served as Vice-President of the Swiss Confederation in 2012 and 2018 and as President of the Swiss Confederation for the year 2013. He was also reelected Federal Councillor in the Swiss Federal Council election of 8 December 2015.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ueli_Maurer
While preparing his doctoral dissertation he worked as an assistant lecturer at the Research Institute for Regional Economic Development at the University of Neuchâtel. He then held a post as guest researcher at the Hamburg Institute of International Economics before becoming a strategic advisor at the Department of Economic Affairs of canton Neuchâtel. In 2006 he set up his own business as an independent strategy and communications advisor working primarily for associations, businesses and NGOs.
In 2003 Alain Berset was elected to the Council of States for the canton of Fribourg and was its president in the year 2008/2009. From 2005 until his election to the Federal Council he was vice president of the Social Democratic group. He was a member of numerous parliamentary committees, including the Finance Committee, the Committee for Economic Affairs and Taxation, the Legal Affairs Committee and the Finance Delegation. He chaired the Council Office, the Political Institutions Committee and the Delegation to the Assemblée parlementaire de la Francophonie. Before his election to the Council of States he was president of the Social Democratic group in the Constitutional Council of canton Fribourg. Between 2001 and 2003 he was a member of the local parliament of his commune of residence.
In addition to his political appointments Alain Berset was president of the Swiss Tenants’ Association – Western Switzerland Section, the Swiss Association for the promotion of AOC/IGP and ‘Les Buissonnets’, a foundation for children and adults with disabilities.
He was elected to the Federal Council by the United Federal Assembly on 14 December 2011. Since 1 January 2012 he is head of the Federal Department of Home Affairs.
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Leuthard was a member of the Swiss National Council from 1999 to 2006 and President of the Christian Democratic People’s Party (CVP/PDC) (2004–2006). She represented Aargau.
Following the resignation of Joseph Deiss from the Swiss Federal Council, Leuthard was elected as his successor on 14 June 2006. She received 133 out of 234 valid votes, and became the 109th member (and fifth woman) of the Federal Council. Her election represented a departure from a long precedent of replacing a member of the Federal Council with someone from the same language group. While Deiss was a French speaker, Leuthard is a German speaker.
For the calendar year 2009, Leuthard was elected Vice President of the Swiss Confederation, virtually assuring her election as president for the calendar year 2010. Due to a large amount of turnover on the Council in recent years, she was the longest-serving councilor not to have served as president. She was the third woman to hold the post, after Ruth Dreifuss (1999) and Micheline Calmy-Rey (2007).
As President of the Confederation, Leuthard presided over meetings of the Federal Council and carried out representative functions that would normally be handled by a head of state in other democracies (though in Switzerland, the Federal Council as a whole is regarded as the head of state). She was also the highest-ranking official in the Swiss order of precedence, and had the power to act on behalf of the whole Council in emergency situations. However, in most cases, Leuthard was merely primus inter pares, with no power above and beyond her six colleagues. She was succeeded by Calmy-Rey in 2011, the first time two women had held the office in succession.
Following a reshuffle of portfolios after the by-election of two new councilors in 2010, Leuthard replaced outgoing Moritz Leuenberger at the head of the Federal Department of Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications.
The project SAFFA 2020 is under the patronage of the three federal councillors (Bundesrat) Doris Leuthard, Simonetta Sommaruga and Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf as well as by the former councillor (aBR) Micheline Calmy-Rey.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Leuthard
He acted as head of his family’s mechanical engineering company Ammann Group in the 4th generation, from 1990 to 2010, when he passed control over the company to his two children. He chaired the corporate union Swissmem from 1999. He was elected to the National Council in 1999 and re-elected in 2003 and 2007. In the context of the 2008 financial crisis, he took a critical stances on bonuses awarded to the finance industry. In 2008, his company moved substantial funds to a tax haven in Jersey.
On 22 September 2010, he was elected to the Swiss Federal Council, as successor to Hans-Rudolf Merz. He is the head of the Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research—the Swiss commerce minister(formerly the Federal Department of Economic Affairs)–taking office on 1 November 2010. Schneider-Ammann had previously announced his intention to step down from his corporate responsibilities as well as various board memberships if elected.
Schneider-Ammann is married, has two children and lives in Langenthal.
Sommaruga is married to the writer Lukas Hartmann and lives in Spiegel near Bern. She is a distant relative of Cornelio Sommaruga.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simonetta_Sommaruga
A native of the Canton of Neuchâtel, he was member of the parliament of the Canton of Neuchâtel from 1990 to 2001. From 2003 to 2007, Burkhalter was a member of the Swiss National Council. He has a degree in economics.
On 11 November 2007, he was elected to the Council of States, along with Social Democratic Party (SP) candidate Gisèle Ory, who was re-elected for a second term. Pierre Bonhôte, the other social democratic incumbent, was not re-elected. During the election campaign, Burkhalter was backed by the Liberal Party (PLS) and the SVP/UDC, though the SVP/UDC scarcely endorsed him publicly.
In 2013, Burkhalter was elected as Vice President of the Confederation, alongside President Ueli Maurer, all but assuring his election as president in 2014. Due to a large amount of turnover on the Federal Council since the start of the millennium, Burkhalter is the longest-serving member of the Federal Council who at the time, had not yet served as president.
On January 1, 2014 Burkhalter assumed the office as President of the Swiss Confederation. As President of the Confederation, Burkhalter presides over meetings of the Federal Council and carries out representative functions that would normally be handled by a head of state in other democracies (though in Switzerland, the Federal Council as a whole is regarded as the head of state). He is also the highest-ranking official in the Swiss order of precedence, and has the power to act on behalf of the whole Council in emergency situations. However, in most cases, the president is merely primus inter pares, with no powers over and above his six colleagues.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didier_Burkhalter
Micheline Calmy-Rey was born in Sion in Canton Valais on 8 July 1945 . She is married with two children and has a degree in political science from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva.
For 20 years she ran a book distribution business. In 1979, she joined the Socialist Party of Geneva, which she later served as president for two terms. As a deputy in the Grand Conseil, or cantonal legislature, she took an interest in public finance, and when she became a member of the cantonal government in 1998, she took over as head of the Department of Finance. In four years, she achieved her goal through a thorough restructuring of the Department’s services. She also successfully oversaw the restructuring of the Cantonal Bank of Geneva which was burdened by a large volume of non-performing loans.
Micheline Calmy-Rey was elected to the Swiss Federal Council on 4 December 2002 and was appointed as head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA). She pursues an active foreign policy marked by a commitment to promoting peace, respect for international law and human rights, and the fight against poverty. The aim of this policy is to ensure security and well-being for all Swiss citizens.
In 2007, Micheline Calmy-Rey was President of the Confederation.
On December 10, 2010, Parliament elected Micheline Calmy-Rey as President for 2011 (106 of 189 votes).
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Prior to assuming her current position as Head of the FDEA on 1 August 2006, Mrs. Leuthard had been a member of the National Council for seven years and President of the Christian Democratic People’s Party from 2004. During her time in the National Council, she was a member of the committees for legal affairs, political institutions, judicial affairs and economic affairs and taxation.
Mrs. Leuthard was born in 1963 and is a lawyer by training. She is married to Dr. Roland Hausin, a research chemist.
Hans-Rudolf Merz was born in Herisau on 10 November 1942 (and is a citizen of Beinwil am See). After attending primary school and secondary school in Herisau and high school in Trogen, he went to the University of St. Gallen. He completed his studies in 1971 with a dissertation on the subject of “Financial assets and administrative assets from the standpoint of public law and economics”, and was awarded a doctorate in political sciences. Between 1967 and 1969, he also held the post of Assistant Lecturer at the Institute of Public Finance and Fiscal Law at the University of St. Gallen.
After leaving university, Hans-Rudolf Merz worked as Secretary of the FDP St. Gallen between 1969 and 1974 and also as managing director of the Appenzell Ausserrhoden Industrial Association. At the same time, he was manager of the Herisau Sports Centre. This was followed by a post as Deputy Director of UBS’s Wolfsberg Executive Development Centre between 1974 and 1977. Between 1977 and 2003, Mr Merz worked as an independent business consultant and was on the board of various Swiss industrial and services companies. His field of activity covered the Middle East, South Africa, Latin America and Europe. As a business consultant he specialised in the recruitment and training of senior management together with corporate development.
Before being elected to the Federal Council, Hans-Rudolf Merz was Chairman of the Board of Directors for Helvetia Patria Insurance AG, St. Gallen, Cilander Textile Finishing AG, Herisau and the holding company Anova Holding AG, Hurden. Furthermore up until the end of 2003, he also held directorships in Hüber + Suhner AG, Herisau, Concast Holding AG, Zurich and Steinegg Holding AG, Herisau. Before this he had been Chairman of Spinnerei Streiff AG in Aathal and Chairman of the Appenzell Ausserrhoden Cantonal Bank where he was responsible for the reorganisation and sale of the bank to the Union Bank of Switzerland. He has also held directorships in Schmidt-Agence AG, Schläpfer AG Appenzeller-Zeitung and SIG AG, Neuhausen.
In 1997 Hans-Rudolf Merz was elected to the Council of States as a representative of Appenzell Ausserrhoden where, as a member of the Radical Free Democratic Party (FDP), he chaired the Finance Committee and was a member of the Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Committees. In addition, he was vice-president of the OSCE delegation. He was elected to the Federal Council in December 2003. Since taking office at the start of 2004, Mr. Merz has been head of the Federal Department of Finance (FDF). On 10 December 2008, he was elected President of the Swiss Confederation for 2009 by the United Federal Assembly.
Hans-Rudolf Merz is married and the father of three grown-up sons. Culture and sport are the mainstay of his spare time activities. His hobbies include opera, jazz, cultural history, literature and ice hockey. Before being elected to the Federal Council, he was president of the Folklore Museum in Stein in Appenzell Ausserrhoden and the Ferdinand Gehr Foundation in St. Gallen, as well as being a member of the Board of Directors of the St. Gallen City Theatre and a trustee of the Steinegg Foundation. For many years he was also president of the Herisau Ice Skating Club.
In the army, Hans-Rudolf Merz held the rank of Major.
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Micheline Calmy-Rey (born July 8, 1945) is a Swiss politician, member of the Swiss Federal Council since 2003. She is head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (the Swiss foreign minister) and President of the Confederation for 2007.
Early life and education
Calmy-Rey was born in Sion in the canton of Valais to Charles and Adeline Rey. She received her diploma in 1963 in St. Maurice, and received a degree in political science at the Institut de hautes études internationales (HEI) (Graduate Institute of International Studies) in 1968. In 1966 she married André Calmy. They have two children.
Career
From 1981-1997 Calmy-Rey served as a Congresswoman in the Grand Conseil of the canton of Geneva as a member of the Social Democratic Party (PSS/SPS), and served as president of the assembly during 1992-1993. She was president of the Geneva section of the party from 1986-1990 and again from 1993-1997. In 1997, Calmy-Rey was elected to the Conseil d’Etat of Geneva. In 2001 she became head of the Finance Department and president of the Conseil d’Etat.
She was elected on December 4, 2002 to the Federal Council, heading the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs. Calmy-Rey is only the fourth woman elected to the Federal Council in history. On December 7, 2005 she was elected Vice-President of Switzerland, a post she held for the calendar year of 2006.
In 2007 she will be the second female President of the Confederation in history, the first having been her predecessor on the Federal Council, Ruth Dreifuss. She was elected as President on 13 December 2006 by 147 votes.
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Heck of a job there, it asobluetly helps me out.
West Yorkshire Police.
We note that Det Chief Inspector Steven Taylor has been removed as Head of the Economic Crime Unit and demoted to Det. Inspector. ( one down two to go.)
A file of some 339 pages including scores of documentation has been forwarded to the following ---
640 --- Members of Parliament.
460 --- Members of the House of Lords.
Ministry of Justice.
F.S.A. – Financial Services Authority.
Serious Fraud Office,
Peters & Peters .London. -- Solicitors.
Pictet & Cie Bank --- London & Geneva.
West Yorkshire Police Authority.
I.P.C.C.--- Independent Police Complaints Commission.
C.C.R.C. --- Criminal Cases Review Commission.
Swiss Ambassador London.
The Criminal Super Class.
Bankers.
Lawyers.
Police. April.2012.
Over approximately five years of hitting the internet with a case that involves criminality by a major Swiss Bank , Britain's most prominent fraud lawyer and a regional police force headed by one of Britains top policeman. ( Surely justice should prevail.)
In fact the complete opposite even though the offences committed are very serious.
Conspiring to Pervert the Course of Justice.
Perverting the Course of Justice.
Contempt of Court.------------------ plus a dozen or so smaller offences.
In the five years some 6-7million e-mails have been forwarded to all Members of Parliaments in Britain and Switzerland, every barrister and chambers in Europe .
Every law inforcement body in both countries , and America. Even raised in Parliament twice.
The banking fraternity fully aware of this case still decide to give the Private Banker of the Year Award to Ivan Pictet --- Pictet & Cie Bank. ( Him being the person most responsible for the crimes committed by him and his bank partners. )
The legal fraternity decided that Monty Raphael of Peters & Peters . London became an honourable Queens Counsellor and to rub the salt in six months later made a Master of the Bench. He also was guilty of all the above offences but so what. At this rate he might become King by the end of the year.
The police ( West Yorkshire Police.) headed by Sir Norman Bettison has not improved as a force on fighting crime. They are now worse than the days of the Yorkshire Ripper , when they had him in custody nine times and let him go. If it hadn't been for the South Yorkshire Police force catching the Ripper he would have still been at large to day .
Then they wonder why the man in the street becomes angry and decides to riot.
Even after five years of exposing their crimes on the internet , they dare not take legal action to stop us --- no injunctions --- no writs – they can't risk going to jail.
All we can do is to continue pressing for justice and up the pressure on the internet. For the next five years and beyond.
Pictet & Cie. Bank – list of crimes.
1996 ---- Breach in London.
2003 --- FSA --- States rogues operating in Pictet’s –London
Office . Ivan Pictet said documents were forgeries but
were lated proved to be genuine. Had documents held
in London office destroyed.
2007 --- Japan. ---- The Securities and Exchange Surveillance
issued a recommendation that the Prime Minister and
The Commissioner of the FSA to take disciplinary
action against Pictet Asset Management. Japan Ltd.
2008 --- Dec. ---Pictet Bank state --- “ we have never chosen
any funds linked to Madoff.”
2011 --- Madoff Trustees sue Pictet & Cie. For $156 Million.
2011--- Bank at centre of Bribery and money laundering case.
Being sued for $350 million. ( In U.S.A.)
2012.--- Geneva Bank Pictet used in Offshore Tax Scheme.
U.S. Authority states.
British Justice. --- Update. Oct. 11th 2012.
Lawyers --- we cannot promise you’ll get justice but you will get the law.
We are getting neither.
The Problem.--- the following are supposed to be whiter than white.
Lawyers. –Peters & Peters.-London.— Monty Raphael. Q.C.
Bankers.- Pictet& Cie.-London- Switzerland.--- Ivan Pictet.
Government Institutions . F.S.A.- Financial Services Authority.
Police.— Sir Norman Bettison. and numerous West Yorkshire Police
officers –guilty of crimes.
** They have broken the “law” but we cannot get “justice.”
We were fobbed off in 2005 by the FSA when we pointed out some fifteen
shortcomings in their regulatory and legal obligations in dealing with the banks.
Along came RBS and all that followed. Banking chaos --- completely out of
control. Brought the country to its knees.
Our dealings with Law Enforcement bodies at all levels showed the same
arrogance --- we are the law we protect our own --- bugger Joe public. ---
bugger the laws we are paid to enforce.
Sir Norman Bettison –Chief Constable –West Yorkshire Police ordered the Forces
Solicitor to ignore a High Court judges ruling to hand over “ non sensitive –
unused material” --- . ( can anybody control him.)
Monty Raphael Q.C. --- too clever by half --- in conjunction with his client the
notorious Pictet & Cie. Swiss Bank --- decide to leave out / destroy crucial
documents requested under a High Court Order.
None of the above pillar’s of society will take me to Court and say I’m telling
untruth’s, I keep on hoping.
Read the story;
Google; --- Ivan Pictet. Banker.
Update
--- Jan. 18 th. 2014.
Pictet
& Cie Bank ---- List of Crimes.
1996 -----
F.S.A--- Breach in London.
2003 ----- F.S.A.
-- States rogues operating in Pictet's London office. Ivan Pictet
states
that documents were forgeries but were later proved to be genuine in
the
British Courts. He had documents destroyed in their London office --
hoping
to hide the crimes.
2007
.- - - The Securities and Exchange Surveillance issued a
recommendation
that
the Prime Minister and The Commissioner of the FSA to take
disciplinary action against Pictet Asset Management – Japan Ltd.
2008
.-- Dec. - Pictet Bank state - " We have never chosen
any funds linked to Madoff.
2011 - - - Madoff
Trustees sue Pictet & Cie. Bank for $156 Million.
2011- - - Pictet &
Cie Bank abetted a Bribery Scheme - Oil company sues Pictet for
$350Million
2012 - - - April
– Geneva Bank Pictet used in Offshore Tax Scheme. ( USA.)
2012 -- - June.
-- Published in Anglo INFO .Geneva.--- USA Trust Fund Investors were
sent false and fraudulent documents by Pictet Bank in order to
collect large fees. ( Like MADOFF)
Even after the SEC
in the USA uncovered the fraud Pictet continued to charge fees and
drain whatever was left in these accounts. Estimated that $90 million
lost in this Pictet Ponzi scheme.
2012 - - - July.
-- De – Spiegel. -- states – Pictet Bank uses a letterbox
company in
Panama
and a tax loophole involving investments in London to gain
German
millionaires as clients.
2012
- - - August ---- German Opposition Leader accuses Swiss Banks of
"organised crime."
2013
--- Jan.--- Swiss MP' table motion to freeze Tiab Mahmud's assets of
" criminal origins"
held
in Swiss banks – $18 million held in 5 accounts at Pictet &
Cie. Bank. Bahamas.
Ironically
the Pictet & Cie.Bank partners are bigger criminals than the
criminals who have accounts in the their bank.
The
bank is now seeking to re-structure -- to cut the partners liability
– hoping to off load their decades of criminal responsibilty –
and move onwards to carry out new crimes. The Germans are right --
the bankers should go to prison if found guilty of financial crimes..
Peters
&Peters – Partners.— (1999---2013)--- guilty.
Pictet
& Cie. -- Partners. --- (1999 --- 2013)---guilty.
The
bank and it’s officials/lawyers deliberately withheld crucial
documents requested under a High Court order. The bank and it’s
officials/lawyers deliberately withheld evidence from the Police, and
one of it’s account managers Susan
Broadhead gave a false witness
statement to the Police.
Another one of it’s
managers Nicholas Campiche
( Now Head of Pictet – Alternative Investments.) concocted a letter
pretending to be a client and closed his account. The senior partner
(Ivan Pictet.) sought
to have numerous documents destroyed,along with those copies held in
their London office’s of Pictet
Asset Management. Initially
stating that they were forgeries then their lawyers Peters
& Peters – Monty Raphael Q.C.–and
the barrister Charles Flint.Q.C.
later had to admit in Court that
the documents were genuine.
British
Parliament. Hansard .29th
March 2007.
Barry Sheerman
.M.P.—quote.
---------“
Constituents of mine have lost
£2 million through fraud. The fraudster used Pictet & Cie - - a
French Bank - - and Pictet Asset Management to back the fraud being
perpetrated.””
Both Ivan Pictet
and Monty Raphael.Q.C. conspired to withhold crucial documents
requested by the High Court – the FSA --- and the Police Fraud
Squad.
Written
Parliamentary Questions received by the table office ..
(1) To ask the
secretary of state what steps he is taking to ensure that Swiss Banks
such as Pictet & Cie do not evade criminal prosecution under EU
law even when the illegal act is committed by a London based
subsidiary.
(2)To ask the
secretary of state what steps he is taking to protect the rights of
UK citizens who seek redress following criminal activities by Swiss
banks with subsidiary offices located in London.
*** We
note that there has been a sharp increase in Peters & Peters
partners leaving to go to other practices. Moving does not alleviate
them of any responsibility from any illegalities that may have
occurred at Peters & Peters during their partnership tenure. From
1999 onwards.
The consensus of
opinion is the Pictet & Cie should be prosecuted , and that their
U.K. banking licence should be taken away.
Their Solicitors at
Peters & Peters .London “ struck off and prosecuted..”
*** Started
campaign --- June 6th.2008.
5 .5years ----
approx 10 .5 million e-mails - - - but still no writs, injunctions or
threats of litigation - - - WHY - - - because it is all true.
*** . The bigger
they are --- the harder they fall.!!!
In
America ---- they would have all been in prison for the last seven
years.
Feb 2013,---
Pictet & Cie Bank Partners remove their unlimited liability.
They realise that
all their personal wealth is at risk , the people they have conned
might want their money back.
Full Story.***
. " Google "
or " Yahoo" .---- "images"
Insert-- ( Charles
Pictet. Banker.
Insert-- ( Ivan
Pictet.Banker.
Insert-- ( Jacques
de Saussure.Banker.
Insert-- ( Nicolas
Pictet. Banker.
Insert-- (
Jean-Francois Demole.Banker.
Insert -- (
Philippe Bertherat. Banker.
Insert-- ( Renaud
de Planta. Banker.
Insert. -- ( Monty
Raphael.Q.C.)
Over
the last eighteen months we posted the following on hundreds of sites
. ---
***
Were currently waiting for the West Yorkshire Police ;-
Chief
Constable . Sir Norman Bettison
Forces
Solicitor. Mike Percival.
Head
of Economic Crime Unit. Det Chief Inspector. Steven Taylor.
to
see if they continue to cover up this case like the FSA. – “
watch this space.”
We
can now state that all the above have been removed from their posts.
All three facing criminal allegations.