Christian Lüscher

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Christian Lüscher (2019)

Christian Lüscher (born December 6, 1963 in Geneva ; legal resident in Geneva and Muhen ) is a Swiss lawyer and politician ( FDP. The Liberals ) and a member of the National Council .

biography

Lüscher is a lawyer and runs the Geneva law firm ZPG together with Charles Poncet , Olivier Carrard, Phillippe Grumbach, Pierre Heinis and Bernard Ziegler.

In 2002 Lüscher took over the presidency of Servette FC together with Olivier Carrard and Alain Rolland , but was unable to get the club's financial situation under control. Servette AG went bankrupt in 2005.

Lüscher has four children and lives in Geneva.

politics

From 1999 to 2003 Christian Lüscher belonged to the community legislature of Troinex on. Since 2001 he has been a member of the Grand Council of the Canton of Geneva for the Geneva Liberals . In the 2007 elections he was elected to the National Council. There he is a member of the legal committee , the editorial committee and the judicial committee .

Lüscher was the official candidate of the FDP.Liberals in the replacement election for Federal Councilor Pascal Couchepin . In the third ballot, Lüscher received 63 votes, his party colleague Didier Burkhalter 80 votes. For tactical reasons, he announced at this point that he was withdrawing his candidacy. In the fourth ballot, Burkhalter was elected to the Federal Council with 129 votes, followed by Urs Schwaller with 106 votes.

Since April 21, 2012, Lüscher has been a member of the five-person Vice Presidium of the FDP, The Liberals.

criticism

Christian Lüscher represents the interests of Abba Abacha, son of the former military dictator of Nigeria Sani Abacha . He tried to negotiate a deal for his client in which the charges and criminal investigations against Abacha's family members for involvement in a criminal organization in Geneva would be dropped, while the plaintiff (Nigeria) would drop the internationally blocked funds of US $ 1.1 billion -Dollars received. Christian Lüscher would have received 1.8 million US dollars. He was criticized because of the conflict of interests of his mandate and as a member of the National Council, as which he worked directly on the revision of the Lex Duvalier in the Commission for Legal Issues and Foreign Policy Commission . The conflict of interest became known through the Tages-Anzeiger and L'Hebdo .

Another mandate is also causing criticism: a mandate in favor of Viktor Chrapunov from Kazakhstan , a former high-ranking functionary who made a fortune under unclear circumstances after the end of the Soviet Union and is now living in exile in Geneva, but internationally because of embezzlement of 250 Million US dollars is sought and the proceedings are pending in Geneva.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ WHO'S WHO. Retrieved August 30, 2009 .
  2. ^ Christian Lüscher - A Geneva newcomer to Bern. Bluewin , archived from the original on August 14, 2009 ; Retrieved August 30, 2009 .
  3. ↑ A optimistic mood in the FDP. In: Swissinfo of April 21, 2012
  4. ↑ Tages-Anzeiger: Lüscher is fighting for his credibility , accessed on July 13, 2015
  5. ↑ Tages-Anzeiger: Der Schnell Gereizte , accessed on July 13, 2015
  6. ^ Neue Zürcher Zeitung : Behind the Kazakhstan affair there is a clan war , accessed on July 13, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Lüscher, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva