When ICTJ and experts such as Niccolò Salvioni & Michael Marchant met with Tunisian officials in March, we stressed that political/moral pressure is as important as technical expertise in going after ill-gotten assets of corrupt ex-dictators and leaders. bit.ly/2Vy1s0R

Da Locarno a Trieste sull'idrovia - @RSInews rsi.ch/g/13289460

ONGOING: Swiss lawyer Niccolò Salvioni explained a proposal by the ex-#Switzerland anti-money-laundering head to shift the burden of proof in #assetrecovery cases to ex-dictators. That would be significant: it can hasten asset recovery AND domestic prosecution, too. #TJCorruption

Navigation, the Swiss accelerate to build the waterway from the Canton of Ticino to the Adriatic breakinglatest.news/business/navig…

Wise, wise words.

La Svizzera ha aderito alle sanzioni contro la Russia. Il paese per la prima volta dal 1815 ha violato la neutralità che deteneva anche durante la prima e la seconda guerra mondiale. (Post di Novaya Gazeta, bisettimanale russo)

I just uploaded 'Switzerland and neutrality towards belligerents: a system of conflict limitation' to Academia! academia.edu/73259425/Switz…

If you read one thing today: Please read every word of this excellent interview with Stephen Kotkin, a leading historian on Stalin, to understand what is happening right now in Ukraine, Putin’s miscalculation and the words of Sun Tzu. newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/s…

My friend, ICTJ partner and Swiss asset recovery lawyer Niccolò Salvioni — joining online — emphasizes changes in Swiss asset recovery laws that followed the Marcos case and the Arab Spring cases involving Tunisia and Egypt. He also noted the helpful role of the press in his work

For Filipinos: it was Niccolò Salvioni’s late father Sergio Salvioni who was the @TheNewPCGG’s original 1986 and 2002-2004 lawyer in Switzerland when we finally recovered $680M in Marcos Swiss assets. He truly deserved this 2014 honor from the Philippines: bit.ly/3Plq2Lz

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says that “humanity is just one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation,” citing the war in Ukraine, nuclear threats in Asia and the Middle East and many other factors. abcn.ws/3d1r0P3

L’11 novembre p. v. a Locarno si terrà un convegno internazionale di navigazione interna Italo-Svizzera intitolato “Slowmove: un faro sull’idrovia.

Segnalo l’interessante dibattito sulla trasformazione del contesto internazionale che si terrà a Lugano questo venerdì 11 ottobre a partire dalle ore 18:00, organizzato dal Club Plinio Verda.

Mercoledì 6 novembre 2024, dalle 20:30 alle 21:30, presso la Sala al 1° piano del Palazzetto FEVI, Via della Peschiera 3 a Locarno, si terrà la presentazione del progetto idroviario Locarno - Milano - Venezia.

Venerdì 8 novembre, dalle 20:30 alle 21:30, presso la Sala al 1° piano del Palazzetto FEVI, Via della Peschiera 3 a Locarno, Svizzera, nel contesto della fiera locale EspoVerbano.ch, si terrà un dibattito sul tema: „Neutralità e politica estera elvetica: quale futuro?“

They’re building the Hyperloop! Good for them. We should do it in America.

🚨Wir – über 300 Akademiker, Diplomaten, Journalisten und besorgte Schweizer Bürger – fordern den Schweizer Außenminister Ignazio Cassis und das Eidgenössische Departement für auswärtige Angelegenheiten auf, sich gegenüber der Europäischen Union für unsere Landsleute, Oberst