Canadian real estate firm Sakto Corporation and its founders have been targets of a lengthy defamatory campaign by the Swiss NGO Bruno Manser Fonds (BMF).  The allegations are false.

With its reputation at stake, Sakto fought back to bring an end to BMF’s unfounded and damaging campaign and initiated legal action against BMF and its Executive Director Lukas Straumann in Switzerland.

This website presents the truth - facts based on publicly available materials, documents, and sources.

​The legal journey began with a definitive judgment in 7 February 2018 by the Superior Court of Justice in Ontario, Canada.  That Court rejected BMF’s claims and concluded that their allegations were based on “conjecture and suspicion more than evidence”.​

Now, following a five year legal proceeding in Switzerland, the court has released a partial and interim ruling.  The Court has dismissed BMF's argument that the lawsuit is a SLAPP, and reserved its substantive decision on the individual publications and statements by BMF.  The court has been asked to order BMF to delete its defamatory posts from the internet, and to compensate Sakto for damages and legal costs.