Switzerland files criminal complaints over crypto spying on behalf of CIA – Financial World

The Swiss Government had filed a criminal lawsuit over the United States Central Intelligence Agencys alleged abuse of a cryptography firm to spy on several Governments secret intel and communications, the Swiss Attorney Generals office said in a statement on Sunday, the 1st of March 2020.

Besides, according to the court documents, the criminal complaint was filed against persons of unknown origin who had been allegedly breaching the international law of exports controls. On top of that, latest accusation from the Swiss Government over CIAs abuse of a cryptography firm to execute covert operations on behalf of them followed a similar high-profile lawsuit regarding alleged breach of Government data named as Operation Rubicon dated back to the 2007s, which for decades involved United States CIA and Germanys BND to covertly spying over other nations encrypted messages by utilizing a technology sold by Swiss firm Crypto AG.

Meanwhile, adding that the Swiss Attorney Generals office would review the complaints before proceeding in to criminal jurisdictions, the Attorney Generals office said in its Sundays (March 1st) statement, The Office of the Attorney General confirms it has received a criminal complaint by the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) dated Feb. 2, 2020 regarding possible violations of export control law.

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