Alfredo Lardelli

Alfredo Lardelli alias Alfredo Borgatte dos Santos is a Swiss entrepreneur, who – according to himself - works “30 percent as a legal adviser, 30 percent as an estate agent and 40 percent as an adviser for the red light-scene”. [http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/dyn/news/print/zuerich/411777.html Drohte Lardelli mit Tod?] Tages-Anzeiger, September 3 2004] He gained his knowledge about jurisprudence autodidactically. He became known to a broad public thanks to the media reporting about his various lawsuits.
* In 1989, Lardelli gets sentenced to twenty years of jail for murdering two prostitutes and the husband of his then-lady-love. In prison, he married a Brazilian woman and adopted her family name, "Borgatte dos Santos". After his early discharge in 1999 grace to good behaviour, he had a big media presence, e.g. in Swiss TV and in rainbow press-paper Blick, that dedicated a series to him, that lasted six issues. [Marianne Fehr, [http://www.weltwoche.ch/artikel/?AssetID=3470&CategoryID=61 Der fröhliche Mörder] , Die Weltwoche 42/02]
* Lardelli wanted to open up an etablissement in Wagen (Gemeinde Jona). This led to various legal arguments. [ [http://www.zsz.ch/storys/storys_archiv.cfm?vID=1132 Streit geht in die nächste Runde] , Linth-Zeitung, August 11 2004] Lardelli e.g. had to appear at court, because he supposedly threated an opponent of his project to kill him.
*In 2006 and inspired by Lardelli, Ueli Maurer, president of political party SVP, was taken legal actions against, because of falsification of documents, and acquitted. [ [http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/dyn/news/schweiz/683330.html Freispruch für Ueli Maurer] , Tages-Anzeiger Online, November 2 2006]

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