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The pharmaceutical heirs Mortimer (48) and Jacqueline Sackler (43) fled to Switzerland after a wave of lawsuits in the United States.
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The Sackler couple have been living in one of the two chalets on their estate in Gstaad BE since February. However, you only want to stay for a short time.
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The Sackler family owns the pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma. The company’s headquarters are in Stamford, Connecticut.
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The third wife of the pharma co-founder Mortimer Sackler (1916-2010), wife Theresa Sackler (70), has been the cultural patron of the «Gstaad Menuhin Festival» in the past years with donations.
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The most hated family in the USA moves to Gstaad BE. In the United States, the Sacklers have billion dollar lawsuits – and are now fleeing to Switzerland. Or not?
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The family announced through a spokesman that they would like to move back to the USA in the foreseeable future. “We’re only in Gstaad for a short time,” he says “Bernese Oberland”, The Sacklers would just hibernate in their family home. In their home country, however, nobody wants to believe that, according to the tenor of the US media.
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Sacklers would have problems with residence permits
If the Sacklers want to gain a foothold in Switzerland, it should be difficult with the residence permit. The State Secretariat for Migration carries out a background check for US citizens. Your reputation will be checked.
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Some Sacklers also have a British passport. In this case, such a check could be omitted.
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400,000 people are dead
In the United States, the Sacklers are held responsible for the opioid crisis. With the marketing of the drug Oxycontin – which is twice as strong as morphine – the late Mortimer Sackler (1916-2010) together with his brother Raymond (1920-2017) made big money in the 1990s.
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Their assets are estimated at CHF 12.78 billion. But at the expense of others: Between 1999 and 2017, a total of 400,000 US citizens died from the effects of painkiller abuse. Nevertheless, the pharmaceutical company Purdue vehemently denies the debt. (Tractor unit)
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