Swiss NCP

agentorangechild
7 days ago
3 min read

Updated: 3 days ago

Dear Swiss NCP,

I am submitting a formal Specific Instance complaint under the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises against Zurich Insurance Group and Swiss Life Holding, both headquartered in Switzerland.

I am the civilian child of an Australian Vietnam War veteran, harmed by inherited toxic exposure to TCDD (Agent Orange). My case is an active complaint before the International Criminal Court (ICC) under Article 15 of the Rome Statute.

On the 7th August 2025, I formally placed these institutions on legal notice via their compliance and whistleblowing channels regarding their potential financial complicity in crimes against humanity and transnational organised crime.

This case concerns:

Ongoing chemical harm to Australian civilians across multiple generations
State-facilitated erasure of harmed children from history, policy, and healthcare
Financial and insurance structures enabling corporate and government denial
Profiteering from prohibited substances in breach of the Stockholm Convention and OECD Guidelines

Enterprise Details

Zurich Insurance Group AG – Mythenquai 2, 8002 Zürich, Switzerland

Swiss Life Holding AG – General-Guisan-Quai 40, 8002 Zürich, Switzerland

OECD Guidelines Breaches

Chapter II – General Policies: Failure to prevent or mitigate known human rights abuses
Chapter III – Disclosure: Failure to disclose financial exposure to ICC-named entities and TCDD manufacturers
Chapter IV – Human Rights: Complicity in systemic harm to vulnerable populations, including children
Chapter VI – Consumer Interests: Failure to ensure redress pathways for affected civilians

Urgency

These institutions have been given a 7-day deadline to respond to my formal legal notices. Their failure to act promptly in the face of active ICC proceedings and ongoing human rights violations will constitute wilful complicity.

Evidence Available

Original legal notices to Zurich Insurance Group and Swiss Life Holding 7th August 2025
ICC case record and filing confirmation under Article 15
Evidence of underwriting links to Australian state entities and TCDD manufacturers
Public record archive documenting harm and institutional denial:

https://agentorangechild.wixsite.com/agent-orange-child

I request that the Swiss NCP:

Accept this complaint as a Specific Instance under the OECD Guidelines.
Notify Zurich Insurance Group and Swiss Life Holding immediately.
Initiate a review process in coordination with other NCPs already on notice in other jurisdictions.

Treaty Breach and Systematic Insurance Fraud
Australia ratified the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants in 2004, thereby accepting binding obligations to identify TCDD exposure, collect harm data, prevent further harm, and provide redress to affected civilians. Under both the Stockholm Convention and the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, these obligations required the government to acknowledge the increased risk profile to all relevant parties — including insurers and reinsurers underwriting state liabilities.

From 2004 onward, each annual renewal of government insurance and reinsurance cover required full disclosure of all material risks. Despite having internationally recognised evidence of TCDD-related harm — including WHO toxicological alerts and multiple UN warnings — the government failed to update its risk disclosures. This omission constitutes material non-disclosure and systematic fraud, repeated at each renewal cycle for over two decades, while also breaching binding international treaty obligations.

Additional Context – Systematic Fraud
The insurance and reinsurance arrangements relevant to this complaint are renewed on an annual basis, requiring the insured party to provide updated risk disclosures and confirm that no material facts have been withheld. By failing to disclose the scale of known TCDD-related harm during each renewal cycle, the insured entities have not committed a single omission, but have repeated the same false declaration every year. This constitutes a pattern of systematic fraud across multiple renewal periods, multiplying the scale of the breach and creating an ongoing, compounding offence under national law, OECD Guidelines, and applicable financial crime frameworks.