In connection with the Crypto affair, SECO suspended general export licences for encryption devices in December 2019. In February 2020, it filed a criminal complaint over possible violations of export-control law. On 19 June 2020, the Federal Council suspended decisions on individual export applications until the criminal investigation was complete. At Crypto International, 13 applications from January to May 2020 for a total of 552 encryption devices were affected. For TCG Legacy in liquidation, formerly Crypto Group, the items included 30 encryption modules and two positions of three devices each from January and February 2020. On 2 December 2020, the Federal Administrative Court declined to hear the appeals against the suspensions ordered by the Federal Council. It did, however, overturn the suspension of another TCG application dated 23 June 2020 because it had been submitted after the Federal Council’s decision. On 21 December 2020, the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland announced that it had definitively discontinued the criminal proceedings. No indications of deliberate, non-legitimised violations of export-control law had emerged. The discontinuation did not determine whether the pending export applications could be approved. The background concerned devices of the former Crypto AG whose vulnerabilities enabled foreign intelligence services to decrypt their customers’ communications.