Thomas Matter adheres to lawsuit against NZZaS

 Ex-Swissfirst boss Thomas Matter filed a lawsuit against NZZ am Sonntag last year for its reporting on the merger of his former bank with Bank am Bellevue. He is still prepared to see the case through to a court ruling, he told Bilanz. Matter is demanding ten million francs in damages. However, he had reached an out-of-court settlement with Blick and Sonntagsblick: The two papers had apologized to him prominently and given him the opportunity to present his side of the story in interviews. Felix E. Müller, editor-in-chief of the NZZ am Sonntag, recently told the Sonntag newspaper that no settlement with Matter was being sought: The intention was to prove the accuracy of the account in court, he said. Matter himself holds shares in the NZZ publishing house. However, he is not planning to increase his stake to more than one percent, he told Bilanz. The NZZ stake is not a strategic investment of his company Matter Group, but he holds it privately. He has been a shareholder in the publishing house for some time and does not want to harm it with his million-euro lawsuit. "But as a citizen, you can't put up with everything," says the financier. He wants to defend himself against what he sees as an unjustified campaign. It was about the reporting at the time in its entirety, not just about individual articles (see
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