Facts
The appellant [A.] filed a criminal complaint against [B.] on 6 September 2018. She stated that she had given him smaller sums of money several times out of fear of angering him. In November 2017, there had been sexual intercourse, which she had tolerated out of fear. Until March 2018, [B.] had made further monetary demands, and [A.] had given him a total of CHF 8,000. When she demanded the money back, [B.] had offered her that she could marry his uncle and receive CHF 30,000 for it.
The Public Prosecutor's Office discontinued the proceedings against [B.] regarding threat, coercion, rape, etc. [A.] appealed against the discontinuation. The High Court of the Canton of Zug upheld the discontinuation of the rape, but dismissed the appeal in all other respects.
[A.] filed a criminal appeal, requesting that the judgment and order of the High Court be fully revoked and the case be remanded to the Public Prosecutor's Office for further investigation, particularly with regard to the offences of extortion and coercion.
Considerations
The Federal Supreme Court dismisses the appeal. It considers the discontinuation of the proceedings regarding extortion and coercion as not arbitrary:
Regarding extortion, the Federal Supreme Court states that the appellant did not claim that [B.] had determined her to an act by which she could have been harmed in her assets through violence or threat of serious disadvantages. Even if the appellant had given money out of fear, she did not substantiate how the alleged threat was supposed to be connected with further money transfers.
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