Key legal question
Whether the company was a person abroad or otherwise subject to BewG permit requirements for the shareholding and purchase.
Extracted holding
The company failed to prove Swiss control and could not exclude that the acquisition was made for the account of persons abroad.
Extracted reasoning
Given contradictory and incomplete evidence on share ownership, financing, declarations, and possible fiduciary holding, the lower court could infer under Art. 22 Abs. 4 BewG that Swiss control was not established.