Swiss Covid Leaks Probe Deepens Woes for Country’s President
- Parliament committee is looking into who leaked what to whom
- Attorney General’s office has ongoing probe into former aide
Alain Berset
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Swiss President Alain Berset’s political woes deepened after parliamentary auditors announced a probe into alleged leaks of pandemic information by his former press chief to the boss of the country’s biggest tabloid newspaper, Blick.
The probe will attempt to “clarify which indiscretions have occurred in connection with the Covid-19 business of the Federal Council, who triggered them and who was the recipient of these indiscretions,” parliamentary audit committee chairman Mattias Michel said at a news conference in the capital Bern on Tuesday.