Tag: Capital gains tax
Hanno Berger’s defenders throw in the towel
Hanno Berger 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 It could hardly…
Hanno Berger extradited to Germany today
Dusseldorf Hanno Berger is back. According to information from the Handelsblatt, the 71-year-old tax attorney crossed the border between Germany and Switzerland on Thursday morning. The Swiss police handed Berger…
Hanno Berger will be extradited today
Hanno Berger The suspect in the Cum-Ex tax affair will be extradited on Thursday. (Photo: Simon Habegger / 13 Photo) Dusseldorf Hanno Berger is coming back. According to information from…
Investment banker sentenced to long prison term
District Court of Bonn Judge Roland Zickler found the former risk analyst at MM Warburg guilty of two counts of tax evasion on Wednesday. (Photo: Reuters) Bonn M. sits in…
Investment banker sentenced to long prison term
District Court of Bonn Judge Roland Zickler found the former risk analyst at MM Warburg guilty of two counts of tax evasion on Wednesday. (Photo: Reuters) Bonn M. sits in…
Cum-Ex deals: Investment bankers in the dock
Bonn – District Court of Bonn Judge Roland Zickler found the former risk analyst at MM Warburg guilty of two counts of tax evasion on Wednesday. (Photo: Reuters) The Bonn…
Cum-Ex deals: Investment bankers in the dock
District Court of Bonn Judge Roland Zickler on Wednesday found the former risk analyst at MM Warburg guilty of two counts of tax evasion. (Photo: Reuters) Bonn The criminal proceedings…
Prosecutor demands 7 years in prison for Warburg bankers
District Court of Bonn A former top manager of Warburg Invest, a subsidiary of the Hamburg MM Warburg Group, is on trial here. (Photo: Reuters) Cologne In the criminal proceedings…
Investigators search offices in Frankfurt
PwC in Frankfurt A contingent of around 30 police officers, public prosecutors and tax investigators has been searching the auditing firm’s offices since Wednesday morning. (Photo: imago images / Jan…
Court sees MM Warburg in duty
Deutsche Bank towers in Frankfurt Bank MM Warburg has sued Deutsche Bank – it is becoming increasingly unlikely that Hamburg will be right. (Photo: Reuters) Dusseldorf This is not a…
The Freshfields secret customer list
Lettering by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer The law firm is the focus of the Cum-Ex investigation. (Photo: imago images/Alexander Pohl) Dusseldorf When the Freshfields law firm was searched in late summer…
The number of proceedings and accused is increasing massively
Section symbols on a courthouse The public prosecutor’s offices in Cologne, Frankfurt, Munich and Stuttgart are busy with cum-ex criminal proceedings. (Photo: dpa) Cologne For around ten years, prosecutors have…
Tax attorney Hanno Berger before extradition to Germany
Proceedings against Hanno Berger Berger is one of the main suspects in the tax scandal. (Photo: via REUTERS) Dusseldorf After around ten years, the end of Hanno Berger’s exile in…
Germany’s biggest tax scandal, Cum-Ex, affects you too!
Corruption, unscrupulousness, megalomania: in our new podcast we report on the most spectacular criminal cases in the German economy. Accompany the Handelsblatt investigative team into the abyss of high finance…
Tax claims against SEB Bank rise to 900 million euros
Dusseldorf First the investigators came, then the mail from the tax office: The major Swedish bank SEB and its German subsidiary DSK Hyp are under massive pressure because of questionable…
Raid on the German headquarters of the major Swedish bank
SEB logo Doing business at the expense of German taxpayers? (Photo: Bloomberg) Dusseldorf More than 80 police officers, tax investigators and public prosecutors have been searching the German headquarters of…
3 German lawyers in the Swiss dock
Bank Sarasin logo in Geneva Two former bankers of the money house are on trial in Switzerland. (Photo: Reuters) Dusseldorf Coming to terms with the Cum-Ex affair is the number…
Prosecutors want to indict fund managers from Munich in the Cum-Ex scandal
Munich Public Prosecutor’s Office Dozens of people are listed as suspects in the Cum-Ex complex. (Photo: Sueddeutsche Zeitung Photo) Cologne Small company, huge numbers: In the dividend season 2010 alone,…
Cum-Ex business: lawsuit against Sparda-Bank Berlin
Headquarters of the Sparda-Bank Berlin The Sparda-Bank is of the opinion that ABN Amro and Lampe have to pay for the damage – part of the Cum-Ex tax refund went…
This is how total losses are properly taxed
Wirecard headquarters in Aschheim Shareholders affected by bankruptcies such as Wirecard will be able to claim this in their tax return for the first time from 2020. (Photo: Reuters) Frankfurt…