Key legal question
Whether the transfers from the intermediary's accounts were part of the predicate offenses or constituted Swiss money laundering.
Extracted holding
The Federal Supreme Court held that the TPF did not violate federal law by treating the relevant transfers as belonging to the foreign predicate offenses, since the prosecution failed to show a manifestly incorrect factual assessment and the issue had not been decided in the earlier remand.
Extracted reasoning
The complaint ignored the Italian proceedings and did not demonstrate that the same facts were at issue in both countries; a further conviction could also have raised ne bis in idem concerns.