Key legal question
Whether the alleged conduct was an extraditable ordinary fraud or excluded fiscal fraud
Extracted holding
The conduct was correctly qualified as ordinary fraud under Swiss law, not as exclusively fiscal fraud.
Extracted reasoning
The decisive factor was the relationship between the accused and the tax authority. He had created fabricated exemption and refund situations through astute deception; the tax procedure was merely the instrument of the offence, and the absence of an actual refund did not matter because attempted fraud is also extraditable.