Key legal question
Whether the mutual legal assistance request satisfied dual criminality for coercive measures in a suspected money-laundering case
Extracted holding
Yes. The request sufficiently described suspicious financial transactions and supported a money-laundering suspicion under Swiss law; detailed description of the predicate offense was not required.
Extracted reasoning
For coercive measures, the facts in the request must show conduct meeting the objective elements of a Swiss offense. Under the treaty and Swiss law, a money-laundering request may be sufficient even if the predicate offense is not described in detail, provided there are substantial indicia and the scale and pattern of transactions point to laundering.