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Young conservatives fight for banking secrecy

August 4, 2009

swissinfo

The youth branch of the rightwing Swiss People’s Party has joined a campaign to protect banking secrecy by collecting signatures for a people’s initiative.

Eric Hess, president of the group, told media in Bern on Tuesday that the effort was aimed at enshrining banking secrecy laws into the country’s constitution to prevent the exchange of account holder data with foreign investigators.

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