Karin Keller-Sutter Biography
Karin Keller-Sutter (born December 22, 1963) is a member of the FDP and a Swiss politician. She is a current member of the Swiss Federal Council, Switzerland’s federal government, and head of the Justice and Police Department.
Karin Keller-Sutter Age
She is 55 years old as of 2018 December.
Karin Keller-Sutter Education
Before moving to Neuchâtel, Karin Keller-Sutter lived her childhood in Wil. She studied language interpretation at the Zurich Dolmetscherschule (now the School of Applied Linguistics at the University of Applied Sciences in Zurich, Switzerland). She then worked as a private student in London and Montréal while studying political science. She also earned a post-graduate pedagogy from Fribourg University and worked in a professional school as a professor.
Karin Keller-Sutter Career
Between 1992 and 2000, Keller-Sutter began a political career as a municipal councilor. In 1997, she chaired the municipal assembly. She was a Kantonsrat deputy from 1996 to 2000, while presiding over the FDP’s local arm. Keller-Sutter was elected to the St. Gallen Canton Government Council on 12 March 2000, where she was appointed to the Security and Justice Department.
Karin Keller-Sutter
She also served as vice president of the Cantonal Directors ‘ Justice and Police Conference. In 2006-2007, she presided over the government. Keller-Sutter was a Swiss Federal Council candidate to succeed Hans-Rudolf Merz on 22 September 2010, but was not elected. On 23 October 2011, she was elected to represent St. Gallen canton in the Council of States with 65% of the votes.
Karin Keller-Sutter is the vice chairman of the St. Gallen International Studies Foundation Board of Trustees. She again announced her candidacy for the Swiss Federal Council on October 8, 2018, this time for Johann Schneider-Ammann’s newly retired seat. She was elected to the Swiss Federal Council on December 5, 2018 with 154 out of 237 votes.
Karin Keller-Sutter News
Swiss Investigate 1MDB Whistleblower.
Xavier Justo is a Swiss citizen who has worked in Saudi Arabia for Petrosaudi, an oil company. In Thailand he was convicted of attempting to blackmail his now ex-employer with confidential documents that he stole from the company, documents that suggest Petrosaudi’s involvement in the 1MDB scandal.
The U.S. spearheaded the multi-billion investigation into corruption and money laundering, including Switzerland and Singapore. As a result of the affair, BSI private bank and Falcon Private Bank were later closed in Singapore. In his home country of Switzerland, Economic Espionage Justo, who is said to be in Malaysia today, has some unfinished business.
According to a report in the “Der Bund” newspaper (behind paywall), the Swiss Attorney General investigates the whistleblower on the grounds of suspected economic spying. The newspaper was confirmed by Michael Lauber, the head of the office. Switzerland’s former justice minister, Simonetta Sommaruga, even signed an authorization to prosecute Justo in September 2018, added the newspaper.
Today, Sommaruga is Minister of Environment, Transport, Energy and Communication, while at the Ministry of Justice, Karin Keller-Sutter took over. Thai authorities released Justo amnestied in December 2016 as part of an amnesty granted after the death of Thai King Bhumibol. He spent two years in Bangkok prison and left his sentence for about a year.
Swiss parliament’s move to deport terrorists draws criticism.
Amnesty International, a human rights organization, described the decision of Tuesday to ignore international safeguards and practices as unacceptable. “It will send the international community an extremely negative signal,” the organization said in a statement. The so-called “non-refoulement principle” requires states not to force refugees or asylum seekers to return to a country where there are serious grounds for believing they may be persecuted.
The newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung comments that it would be better for Parliament to respect the rule of law. “Parliament’s strength should be based not on intestinal feeling, but on law. Not out of respect for terrorists, but out of self-respect and our own legal principles. “Unconstitutional The parliamentary decision is in violation of the European Convention on Human Rights and the Swiss Constitution, the newspaper writes in an editorial. “The decision is not worthy of the rule of law country. We are about to become the accomplices of inhumane regimes. “An interview with a spokeswoman from Amnesty International’s Swiss chapter, Nadia Boehlen, was published by the daily Le Temps.
She warns that with a bill that can not be applied, the Swiss government is now facing a dilemma. She also points out that deporting terrorists is a striking contradiction for the government but, according to a government decision earlier this month, it is unwilling to repatriate Swiss citizens involved in terrorist activities abroad. The Blick newspaper accuses the Senate supporters of pandering to populist ideas. “The senators put populism ahead of real solutions in the run-up to parliamentary elections.”
Christian Democrat motion The Senate followed the House of Representatives on Tuesday in calling on the government to put forward a bill to expel convicted terrorists. A centrist Christian Democratic Party representative’s motion refers to a case involving several Iraqis found guilty of belonging to the banned Islamic State group. They are still in Switzerland, despite their conviction in 2016.
During the debate on Tuesday, Justice Minister Karin Keller-Sutter failed to persuade senators that other planned legal amendments would be more appropriate to address the issue. Voters approved an initiative in 2010 calling for the automatic deportation of criminal foreigners under the non-refoulement principle, taking into account basic human rights.