Carla Del Ponte


Carla Del Ponte Carla Del Ponte (born 9 February 1947 in Lugano) is a Swiss lawyer, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda from August 1999 to 2003, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia from 1999 to December 2007.

Graduated from the University of Bern and Geneva, Switzerland in 1972. In 1990, she was the first woman to take the position of Attorney General of Sottoceneri (part of the canton of Ticino). Since 1994 she has been the Swiss Attorney General. She dealt primarily with organized crime. During her work she became famous for revealing the connections between Boris Yeltsin and his family with the Swiss company Mabetex. This was the case with the Russian prosecutor Nikolai Volkov. While working in The Hague, she accused former Yugoslav President Milosevic of ethnic cleansing of Yugoslavia.

In the years 2008-2011 she was an ambassador of Switzerland in Argentina. Next, a member of the UN Human Rights Commission. Authoritative control (person):

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