“I did my job”

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“I was doing my job as a journalist,” Fignal said looking back to the newspaper “Le Matin Dimanche” on Sunday. It wasn’t he who decided to become a federal councilor and marry a “scoundrel” who had numerous problems with the judiciary, as he said.

In 1989, Kopp resigned from the Federal Council. In 1988 it became known that she had asked her husband in a telephone conversation to withdraw from a company because of possible involvement in money laundering. Public pressure eventually persuaded her to resign from the Federal Council, though she has always disclaimed any moral or legal culpability, according to a statement from the Federal Council on Friday. A federal court acquitted them a year later.

After Kopp’s death was announced on Friday, several politicians highlighted the unfair treatment the former federal councilor experienced during the affair.

“Maybe it wasn’t under the law, but it was definitely a political issue,” Fingal said. The parliamentary commission of inquiry, which has not been kind to her, is never mentioned, he added.

The former Zurich correspondent was working on another case related to Kopp’s department when he was contacted to investigate indiscretions: “It took months of research during which I met my main source at rest areas between Zurich and Bern,” recalled Fingal .

The journalist was tense when it was published: “We would have been in trouble if the Federal Council had appeared as one.”

Fingal does not see his research as the pinnacle of his career: “Other articles have inspired me more and led to more important results, such as investigations into international pedophile networks,” he said.

(SDA)

Source:Blick