Swiss may curb loophole allowing payments to avoid jail time

Switzerland may make it tougher for offenders to buy their way to freedom by revising a 2007 law that once helped Russian billionaire Victor Vekselberg settle allegations that he broke stock market disclosure rules. The law lets lawbreakers facing a conditional sentence of up to two years in prison skirt punishment if they make compensation payments or undertake "every reasonable effort" to make amends for the damage they have done. A proposal moving through Swiss parliament would narrow the eli