Nestlé Found Guilty of Spying on Swiss Activists Pratap ChatterjeeNestlé, the world’s largest food company, has been found guilty of spying on Swiss activists in 2003 with the help of Securitas, a private security company. Jean-Luc Genillard, president of the Lausanne civil court, told the two companies to pay $3,267.55 to each of nine victims.In 2003, a group of activists with the Association pour la Taxation des Transactions pour l'Aide aux Citoyens (ATTAC) in Vaud, Switzerland, started working on a book on the global policies of Nestlé. A Securitas employee infiltrated the group under a false name (Sara Meyland) in order to attend the ATTAC meetings about the planned book. Nestlé reacted to the court ruling “with disappointment” although it added that "incitement to infiltration is against Nestlé’s corporate business principles."

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