Swiss Grant U.S. Request to Freeze Bank Accounts in Spy Case

On March 11, 1994, the Swiss Government, almost one week after rejecting a request from the U.S. to freeze the bank accounts of Aldrich H. Ames and his wife, Rosario, in connection with the criminal charges of spying for Moscow, announced that the Ameses are now targets of a Swiss criminal investigation and their three Swiss bank accounts have been frozen. Just one week earlier the Swiss federal police explained that it rejected the U.S. request on the basis that spying is a political offense and as such is excluded from assistance under Swiss law?[more]