The Khans are accused of attempted coercion, false accusations, deprivation of liberty and misleading administration of justice, and a number of Zurich cantonal police officers have been charged with abuse of office, deprivation of property and forgery of documents.
Why is? Investigo’s detectives shadowed Iqbal Khan on behalf of the CS last September. The well-known banker had given notice in June, and CS wanted to make sure that he complied with the termination agreement. The suspicion was that Khan wanted to take employees and clients from CS to UBS. Khan noticed the persecution, confronted one of the detectives, and filed a criminal complaint about threats, coercion, and breach of privacy or confidentiality by tape recorders. As a result, the detectives were arrested, their names and those of their company were published in the press, and they were no longer able to work “de facto”. This caused them considerable damage.
Khan and his persecutors are accused of similar offenses. How is that possible? The starting point is the Khan couple’s car trip on September 17 from Herrliberg to the center of Zurich. One of the detectives shadowed Khan and his wife. Khan says in his own ad that he noticed the persecution and considered it “danger.” He therefore tried to shake off the pursuer with a maneuver after the Quai Bridge. It was an “actual chase”. However, the detectives are now writing in their ad that there was no hunt. Khan simply looked for a parking space in downtown Zurich. Most of the streets are in the Tempo 30 zone.
Put in «fear of death»
When Khan and his shadow had parked, there was a meeting. According to Khan, the detective approached him in a “very aggressive, aggressive attitude”. He was put in “fear of death” and cried out for help. The detectives, on the other hand, claim that Khan himself approached her employee. He insulted him and photographed him.
Credit Suisse suspected that Iqbal Khan wanted to take employees and clients from CS to UBS. Photo: Günter Bolzern
The latter can be proven. Some of the pictures Khan took then appear in the files. You can see the detective walking across the pavement with a loudspeaker in his ear. In one of the pictures he looks into the camera. A physical threatening gesture cannot be seen in the pictures in the documents of the criminal investigation. It is not known whether other pictures exist. What has been said is controversial, it is statement against statement.
Accordingly, both parties draw opposite conclusions from the events. In his ad, Khan claims that the whole thing was a kind of “stalking”, which is a matter of coercion or serious threat. The detectives, on the other hand, say that Khan’s entire report is a false accusation, which she believes is punishable. The banker made the allegations consciously and against better knowledge, with the intention of bringing about prosecution.
Ringed out of bed
Finally, the detectives quote from a statement by former CS security chief Remo Boccali, who commissioned the surveillance on behalf of the CS. Boccali said that Khan called him after the incident and gave the CS a few hours to conclude a “gentlemen’s agreement”. Otherwise he would go to the police. It is suggested that Khan wanted money or other benefits from the CS that he was not entitled to. The detectives see this as an attempt to coerce the CS. Khan denies the course of events and has his lawyer Dieter Gessler say: “There was no demand for an agreement.”
After noticing his persecution, Khan called Boccali and asked if he had anything to confess to him. Boccali explicitly denied it. Khan then went to the police. “He wanted the authorities to find out who was chasing him and his family,” says Gessler. Khan was left by Boccali to believe that the CS had nothing to do with shading. This can be proven with several SMS from Boccali to Khan. For the rest, Khan sticks to all of his portrayals. Gessler: “The CS apologized publicly to Khan and his family for the shading.” Rohner expressly stated: “This surveillance order was (was) wrong and inappropriate.”
The morning after the incident in the city center, three teams from the cantonal police rang the three detectives from their homes at six o’clock in the morning and arrested them. According to the files, there was only an “oral order to show” the public prosecutor’s office. According to the protocol, the police also took the iPhone, the keys and his bank card from one of the detectives. According to the announcement, this would only have been permitted with a search warrant.
In another protocol, the police wrote that they had only secured the cell phone at the police station, “from person”. This contradicts the police files. The accusation here: This is falsification of documents, which the police have made to cover the security of the cell phone in the morning.
Erich Wenzinger, spokesman for the public prosecutor’s office, confirmed that the complaint against police officers was “in the context of a house search” that the cantonal police carried out after shadowing the Kahns. A remarkable statement because it is on record that there was no search warrant. Regarding the criminal complaint against the Khan couple, Wenzinger says: «We confirm receipt of a criminal complaint by an Investigo employee against Iqbal Khan and his wife. The ad is currently under review. »
Created: 08/01/2020, 06:28 AM
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