A Zurich court convicted a former employee of Bank J. Safra Sarasin AG of one count of corporate espionage for leaking internal documents about a controversial tax deal. The man, who can only be identified as Volker S., was found guilty Thursday of giving a journalist the information, which was used by German authorities in a probe of the tax-avoidance programs. He was acquitted of four other charges against him. Judge Sebastian Aeppli ruled that the man’s former colleague, Bernhard V., and Eckart Seith, the German lawyer at the heart of the case, were both guilty of lesser violations of the Swiss Banking Act in the ... (full story)