15 Years Ago the Chairman of the First PUK Died – A Retrospective
Published: Sunday, Jul 23rd 2023, 06:40
Updated At: Friday, Oct 13th 2023, 14:12
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Kurt Furgler was the chairman of the first Parliamentary Investigation Commission (PUK) in Switzerland 15 years ago. Since then, there have been five PUKs on a federal level. The first PUK was set up in 1964 to investigate the Mirage Affair, in which the Swiss Army wanted to buy the best fighter planes, resulting in costs of over 1.4 billion francs. The PUK found that the Federal Council had misled and even deceived the Parliament in some aspects. In 1989, the PUK EJPD was set up to investigate the Kopp Affair, which led to the Fichenskandal in 1990. The PUK EMD was set up to investigate the Nachrichtendienste and uncovered the existence of the secret resistance organization P26 and the intelligence service P27. In 1995, the PUK under Fritz Schiesser was set up to investigate the Federal Pension Fund (PKB) and found that former Finance Minister Otto Stich was mainly responsible for the debacle. In 2023, the PUK under Isabelle Chassot was set up to investigate the forced merger of Credit Suisse and UBS. Several other attempts to set up a PUK have been rejected, including for the Nyffenegger case in 1996, the railway nuclear waste transport in 1998, the Bellasi case in 2000, and the Swissair grounding in 2001.
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