SAKTO FILES FULL STATEMENT OF CLAIM IN CIVIL PROCEEDINGS AIMED AT PUTTING AN END TO UNSUPPORTED CLAIMS AND ALLEGATIONS BY BRUNO MANSER FONDS

October 20, 2019 
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• Sakto has filed a 612-page Statement of Claim providing evidence that Bruno Manser Fonds ("BMF") and Executive Director Lukas Straumann have waged an ongoing false campaign against the company and its executives, causing severe damage to their reputation.
• For years, BMF have levelled allegations of corruption and money laundering against Sakto in print, online, and in person, continuously leveraging their campaign for fundraising purposes.
• Lukas Straumann admitted under oath in Canadian court proceedings that he has no evidence of any wrongdoing on the part of Sakto or its executives.
• Sakto initiated Swiss court proceedings to restore its reputation and bring the attacks to an end. The company is seeking an end to BMF's unjustifiable and false campaign, and the permanent removal of the defamatory material (approximately 250 publications) from the public domain.
• Sakto is also claiming from BMF the so-called "infringer’s profit" – money that BMF raised based on suspicion and conjecture throughout their lengthy campaign.
• None of the numerous public authorities BMF attempted to motivate to initiate proceedings against Sakto has ever done so. The burden of proof is now on BMF.