Langbar International

Indeed so, Wiganer. My pathetic attempt at irony to say it was now in safe hands. Four times in all has the same restaurant business apparently become insolvent. Quite remarkable. A typical laundering-type scenario.

The ever-so-ever-so-proper Swiss would be aghast to learn that one of their few
"personalities" (the only one I instantly recall is Julie Andrews) was related to an international fraudster; mainly because he is apparently the "Confidential Informant" in the Portus affair. LoL. The Swiss populus, for anyone unfamiliar with it's habits, is a funny old lot. 90% of them still have either personal or communal nuclear shelters. Most of them get paid into bank a/cs, then withdraw the lot in cash and pay their bills within a day or so of getting them/blow the rest on ludicrously expensive nonsense. And most of them keep several guns at home. I lived in a 3rd floor apartment in Basle with a communal verandah. My neighbour kept a veritable arsenal of firepower in a huge stripped-out fridge on the verandah, secured only by a bike chain, because "nobody would steal a gun, everyone has one already".

edit: I am aware of the Peter Regli/IRA connection, but have never managed to link Peter to Jean-Pierre

Having translated with an imperfect tool, the bit I did not get was the reference to "April Irish" in one of the SLI articles on moneyhouse. Any ideas, W?