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I wonder what the outcome can be of filing a criminal complaint like this? What do they hope to achieve? I can't imagine anyone or any nation will ever be broug

• markus_zhang 7y ago
  I think it's more of a gesture. There was also a similar action by the European Parliament against Operation Gladio back in 1990, which was also a gesture.
  • archi42 7y ago
    Exactly. If this wasn't persecuted the message would be "yeah, screw people over and ruin the swiss reputation, we don't really care". Now even if the evidence isn't court-proof, or it's not possible to attach it to specific people, it still shows that things like this won't be ignored. If I was responsible for selling rigged encryption equipment, I'd be wary that this might backfire on me - even in a decade or two.
• sfifs 7y ago
  If they can identify people involved, they can issue arrest warrants and a red corner notice via Interpol. That can make travel very difficult for the people involved and they'll essentially be unable to leave their own countries without risk of arrest. They won't realistically ever be able to prosecute, but they can make life a bit uncomfortable as a gesture. And if relatives or friends of those people vacation in Switzerland, they can always pull them in for "questioning about a suspect" as another form of harassment. Small countries can never threaten a big state realistically, however they have the ability to harrass people who work for these big states in the hope of discouraging future action