Behring to trial after 12 years at the TPF

Dieter Behring's trial begins today, Monday,  to the Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona, and will last until the end of June. The financier Basel is accused of fraud for scam to trade and money laundering; defined the Swiss Madoff, he had damaged 2,000 investors between September 1998 and October 2004, promising to invest safely halt the capital that relied more speculative areas and the other half, to get more returns high. He ended up leaving a chasm of 800 million francs, because in reality the money of new clients was used to repay the previous ones and to fund his lavish lifestyle (up to 600,000 francs autoconcesso salary, watches and jewelery).

It was a complex job to rebuild the mechanism, he arrives in the courtroom after a dozen years during which several lawyers appointed ex officio waived their mandate or were exempt from the federal prosecution. The defense is guaranteed by Zurich Bruno Steiner. The ruling is expected by the end of September.