Swiss Public Health could have violated the law by signing contracts for covid jabs without any obligations for manufacturers to provide safe and effective jabs

Fro media

The Federal Office of Public Health last week published partially redacted contracts with the Covid vaccine manufacturers Moderna and Novavax.

The group Action Alliance for a Free Switzerland (ABF Switzerland) has commissioned a legal analysis of the contracts. The results were described as “shocking” by the group.

Although the purpose of the contracts was “supposedly to protect health from the Covid pandemic”, none of the contracts contained any obligations for the manufacturers to deliver an ffective or safe product, the group said.

The liability risks lie solely with the state and taxpayers, it added.

The Swiss People’s Party parliamentarian and lawyer Rémy Wyssman, who fought for the disclosure of the contracts, is calling for those responsible to be held accountable and for liability to 

be tightened for senior managers and auditors in the administration.

The question arises as to whether the Federal Council has violated mandatory principles of procurement law and whether it has wrongly concealed the essential content of these contracts from Parliament, the action alliance continued. The question also arises as to whether the Federal Council has violated the interests of the Swiss population by paying taxpayers' money amounting to over one billion Swiss francs for preparations. It is also unclear whether taxpayers' money was misappropriated.

https://www.bluewin.ch/en/news/switzerland/strong-accusations-against-foph-and-federal-council-3200385.html

https://abfschweiz.ch/kantonale-gesundheitsgesetze/