Questão jurídica principal
Whether the complainants had standing as civil parties in the Geneva criminal proceedings.
Decisão extraída
No immediate legal injury was shown; their loss was at most indirect because they contracted with their own Argentine portfolio manager, not with the Swiss defendants.
Fundamentação extraída
Civil-party status requires immediate harm and a plausible causal link to the alleged offense. The cantonal court could reasonably find that the complainants invested through an independent manager, knew the formal role of the fund manager, and failed to show a plausible deception or duty of management owed by the defendants to them.