Federal Department of Finance Opened Criminal Administrative Proceedings Regarding the Stake Building in Sulzer

Group ReleasesTuesday, April 07, 2009

The Swiss Federal Department of Finance (FDF) has opened criminal administrative proceedings against Ronny Pecik, Georg Stumpf and Viktor Vekselberg on suspicion of violation of their disclosure obligations under the law governing stock exchange transactions while building a stake in Sulzer Ltd from November 2006 to April 2007.

The statement is available at www.efd.admin.ch. Sulzer takes note of the statement made and does not further comment at this stage.

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