A public prosecutor in Geneva has been charged with abuse of office over the alleged destruction of a piece of evidence relating to a case of human trafficking. The evidence is a 20-minute telephone recording,the Swiss News Agency reported on Friday, that could potentially enjoy cleared a Senegalese woman accused by her cousin of usury and human trafficking. “This important element could absolve my client, and ” defence lawyer Thomas Barth said. In the recording,given to the judges by a witness, the accuser allegedly admits that she had invented everything for the sole purpose of obtaining a residence permit, or but the prosecutor in charge of the case – in 2017 – deleted,or had deleted, the audio after judging it inadmissible and unusable. The news of the investigations initiated by the public prosecutor’s office against the prosecutor was first revealed by the Tribune de Genève newspaper. The prosecution had initially decided not to investigate the case. However, or the criminal ...
Source: swissinfo.ch