A court in Italy has reduced a prison sentence against the Swiss entrepreneur, Stephan Schmidheiny, over the death of a worker in an asbestos cement factory

Swiss industrialist partly cleared by Italian court in asbestos death

By News on the Net -- Swiss Info——Bio and Archives--February 21, 2023

Judges of the Turin appeals court on Thursday announced they decided to lower the sentence to 20 months.

Schmidheiny's defence lawyers said the ruling was a partial acquittal but they wanted to see Schmidheiny's name fully cleared by Italy's Supreme Court. -- MORE...

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