[1][2] Stauffer claimed to have collaborated in the 1990s with the Federal Military Department, in particular the Spiez Laboratory, which specializes in the study of atomic, biological and chemical threats and risks related to weapons of mass destruction .
[4] Around 2000, Stauffer was active on the island of Mauritius, advising his friend, Xavier-Luc Duval, Minister of Industry and Commerce.
[7] In October 2003, he participated in the creation of the airline Helvetic Wings and became the chief financial officer,[5] in disagreement with the shareholders of the company on the strategy of development he resigned in April 2004 after only 6 months of activity.
Stauffer was elected Deputy to the Grand Council of the Republic and Canton of Geneva under the label of the Mouvement Citizens Genevois.
Elected deputy, he unsuccessfully contests, on 13 November, a seat in the Council of State but ahead of the two candidates of the Democratic Union of the center of several thousand votes.
[26] In October 2010, Stauffer designed a poster as part of a federal vote picturing Colonel Gaddafi with the slogan "He wants to destroy Switzerland."
In 2016, after his failure to take over the chairmanship of the CWM, Stauffer announced his resignation from the Grand Council but reconsidered this decision and sits from June 2016 as "independent".
However, in the elections to the Grand Council, held on 15 April 2018, "Geneva en marche" received only 4.1% of the vote and won no seats.
[citation needed] In 1999, Stauffer founded, in Mauritius with Xavier Luc Duval, a management company Equinoxe Financial Services Ltd. A few months later in a by-election helped by Stauffer, Duval is elected and becomes Minister of Industry and Trade and Deputy Prime Minister of Mauritius.
[38][39][40] Then-Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam was reportedly afraid Stauffer knew money had been diverted from the Mauritian government to the Geneva-based UOB bank in Geneva.
[41] An internal UEB document, published by the Geneva Tribune, confirmed that contact took place in 1997 between the bank and the Mauritian finance minister at the time.
[42] After a fierce press release from the Swiss Confederation disavowing Ramgolam, the opposition seizes power at an early election.
In 2008, he denounces, on the basis of a report by Claude Marcet, former CFO of GIS and member of the Board of Directors of SIG, that Gaznat, a subsidiary of GIS specializing in gas, allegedly falsified its accounts in the 1990s to conceal dumping of its tariffs and "sink mazoutiers"; the operation would have made it necessary to clean up Gaznat up to 74 million francs payable by the taxpayer of Geneva.
[47] In early March 2009, the Council of State revoked Stauffer's mandate as administrator of the SGI for alleged violations of the duties related to its function.
[citation needed] In 2013, Stauffer staged a production filmed [49] to show that young people can very easily buy drugs in Geneva.
He has cocaine bought during a political communication operation to demonstrate the ease of buying drugs in the Pâquis neighborhood and the lack of control by the authorities.