Swiss Foreign Ministry spokesman Tilman Renz described the case as "deeply disturbing" and said Swiss diplomats were assisting the couple.
In the wake of the Wegelin case, other Swiss banks will have to decide what to do.
The Higher Performance Sea Diver comes in a steel case with a Swiss ETA automatic movement (likely a 2892).
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The BBC's Imogen Foulkes, in the Swiss capital of Bern, says the case is certain to call into question Switzerland's relatively liberal gun laws, under which Swiss men, all of whom must serve in the army, keep their guns at home.
The case was launched with Swiss investigators and an Italian business publication called Il Sole 24 Ore.
U.S. officials said the opposite -- they were optimistic they could make a winning case against him in a Swiss court.
He is prepared to pay a full price for coveted targets: in the case of Danzas, a Swiss purchase, a 36% premium over the market price (see table).
It has ordered Mr Zardari's government to apply to the Swiss authorities to reopen the money-laundering case against Mr Zardari and Ms Bhutto.
"If, after a fair hearing in Switzerland at which the entire record of this case is truthfully presented, the Swiss determine that extradition is justified, Mr Polanski will of course comply with a lawful extradition order and return to California to litigate the issues of prosecutorial and judicial misconduct and be finally sentenced under the law, " the statement said.
No one has been convicted in that case, which was widely referenced in Swiss newspapers over the weekend.
Aid groups, including Medicins Sans Frontieres, have opposed Novartis' case, fearing that a victory for the Swiss drugmaker would limit access to important medicines for millions of poor people around the world.
He said French and Swiss lawyers are seeking their own information from UBS in the case.
Wood said the United States has been in regular contact with Swiss authorities, but couldn't say more about the case without express permission from Saberi or her family.
News of the incident was widely reported in Swiss media over the weekend, and newspapers chronicled developments in the case.
In 2006, in a case against billionaire Igor Olenicoff, the IRS succeeded in leveraging the Swiss banking giant, UBS, to release data on thousands of bank accounts held by Americans.
Yet, he adamantly denies the allegations against him, and neither the United States nor Swiss authorities who have investigated him intensely have been able to make a criminal case against him.
The case is getting front-page coverage in the Indian media and the Swiss embassy has called for a swift investigation, the BBC's Andrew North reports from the capital, Delhi.
His lawyers said they want the Swiss authorities to know about the actions of the now-deceased judge in the case, specifically his intent to treat a 90-day diagnostic study in prison as Polanski's entire punishment.
Swiss prosecutors office told the BBC that they are investigating two other Uzbeks in relation to the case.
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Swiss authorities, with help from Pakistan's then-government, continued to build a case.
But in a report today Swiss bank Credit Suisse throws cold water on that idea offering some compelling arguments to buttress its case.
"The acceptance of bribe money by Havelange, Teixeira and Leoz was not punishable under Swiss criminal law at that time, " explained Eckert in his report into the FIFA-ISL case.
Among them is SGS, a Geneva firm, one of whose former executives was indicted by a Swiss court in an alleged bribery scheme involving Pakistan's former prime minister Benazir Bhutto (the case was later dropped).
"All we ask on Mr Polanski's behalf is that the Swiss be informed of this fact by the United States, a fact confirmed by every prosecutor in charge of this case up to now, " the statement added.
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