Benjamin Limbach, Anne Brorhilker and Peter Biesenbach (left to right): Are the authorities pushing the Cum-Ex investigations with all their might?
Dusseldorf The clarification of the largest German tax scandal Cum-Ex is shaken by an unprecedented judicial scandal. As the Handelsblatt learned, the former North Rhine-Westphalian Minister of Justice Peter Biesenbach (CDU) has filed a complaint against the head of the Cologne public prosecutor’s office and his deputy. The ex-minister criticizes that the procedure is being slowed down by the responsible law enforcement agency: those responsible have not provided the Cum-Ex department with enough staff and resources.
In fact, some investigations take so long that suspects could get away with lighter sentences because of the lengthy procedures. Biesenbach also criticizes the fact that he had to force additional investigators on the public prosecutor’s office during his tenure.
In a letter to his successor, NRW Minister of Justice Benjamin Limbach (Greens), he expressed his fear that the head of the Cologne public prosecutor’s office and his representative “neither support nor support” the investigators.
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