Key legal question
Whether Swiss courts had territorial jurisdiction over the alleged conduct
Extracted holding
Jurisdiction was affirmed on the basis of the indicted facts, which included acts in Switzerland tied to the cigarette trade and related financial flows.
Extracted reasoning
The indictment alleged substantial conduct in Switzerland; foreign acts were part of a Swiss-linked course of conduct. Territorial jurisdiction followed from Art. 3 and 8 StGB, and Art. 260ter no. 3 StGB did not exclude Swiss law.