Federal Act
on the Freezing and the Restitution of Illicit Assets
held by Foreign Politically Exposed Persons
(Foreign Illicit Assets Act, FIAA)

1 Fed­er­al and can­ton­al au­thor­it­ies shall trans­mit to the FD­FA and the FDF, on their own ini­ti­at­ive or on re­quest, the in­form­a­tion and per­son­al data ne­ces­sary for this Act to be en­forced.

2 The FD­FA shall trans­mit to the fed­er­al su­per­vis­ory au­thor­it­ies and to fed­er­al and can­ton­al au­thor­it­ies re­spons­ible in mat­ters of mu­tu­al leg­al as­sist­ance and crim­in­al pro­sec­u­tion, at their re­quest, the in­form­a­tion and per­son­al data they re­quire to carry out their leg­al tasks.

3 The FOJ or the au­thor­ity en­trus­ted with the ex­e­cu­tion of a re­quest for mu­tu­al leg­al as­sist­ance in crim­in­al mat­ters shall in­form the FD­FA where:

a.

a re­quest for in­ter­na­tion­al mu­tu­al leg­al as­sist­ance in crim­in­al mat­ters con­cern­ing as­sets frozen in Switzer­land held by for­eign polit­ic­ally ex­posed per­sons or their close as­so­ci­ates will not be gran­ted ow­ing to a fail­ure of state struc­tures in the re­quest­ing coun­try;

b.

there is reas­on to be­lieve that no mu­tu­al leg­al as­sist­ance pro­ceed­ings in crim­in­al mat­ters can be con­duc­ted based on the pro­vi­sions of Art­icle 2 let­ter a of the Mu­tu­al As­sist­ance Act of 20 March 1981⁸; or where

c.

it will be ne­ces­sary to re­ject an already pending re­quest for mu­tu­al leg­al as­sist­ance based on the pro­vi­sions of Art­icle 2 let­ter a of the Mu­tu­al As­sist­ance Act.