The string puller in the Cum-Ex tax affair is facing two processes. He faces a long prison sentence.
(Photo: Simon Habegger / 13 Photo)
Dusseldorf Idiots, weaklings, socialist gangs. The contempt that Hanno Berger feels for the German judiciary knows many foul words. The tax attorney once called the prosecutors there “ass fiddles in Cologne” in a conversation. Berger told his daughter that he wanted to “hit the pigs”. He referred to a judge as a “pig judge”.
The reason for Berger’s anger was the ban on the businesses that had been very beneficial to him for years. The lawyer earned tens of millions of euros with his advice on so-called cum-ex trading. When the judiciary classified Cum-Ex as tax evasion and searched Berger’s law firm in 2012, he fled to Switzerland.
From there, in the idyllic mountain village of Zuoz, Berger sometimes railed against “left-wing fascist and communist” developments in his homeland, sometimes against “Nazi conditions”. For nine years, Berger hid from the “saubande” and the “dirty pigs”, as he called the German officials. Now he meets her. Berger’s trial begins on Monday at the Bonn Regional Court.
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