Key legal question
Whether the request for assistance was an inadmissible circumvention of the double-criminality requirement because proceedings had been opened against the appellant for money laundering in Italy.
Extracted holding
No circumvention was shown; the challenged transmission was based on the original proceedings, in which several offenses remained punishable under Swiss law, and the appellant's separate Italian proceedings were outside the scope of review.
Extracted reasoning
The Court held that the original request already mentioned money laundering and that assistance may be granted for multiple offenses if at least one is punishable in Switzerland. The later Italian proceeding did not require a new rogatory letter and did not affect the legality of the transmission decision.