Tag: Cum-ex scandal
Court sentences former Maple bosses to more than four years in prison
maple bank Four former Maple Bank employees were convicted by the Frankfurt Regional Court on Monday. (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt The presiding judge, Werner Gröschel, identified a “very significant level of…
Court sentences former Maple bosses to more than four years in prison
maple bank Four former Maple Bank employees were convicted by the Frankfurt Regional Court on Monday. (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt The presiding judge, Werner Gröschel, identified “very considerable criminal energy” in…
Warburg owner Olearius fails with an appeal against the indictment
Hamburger Warburg Bank Christian Olearius was head of the private bank for many years. (Photo: Getty Images) Dusseldorf It is a setback for Christian Olearius: The Higher Regional Court (OLG)…
Scholz has to answer these 8 questions
Chancellor Scholz in the Cum-Ex scandal (Photo: Imago, dpa, Getty Images) Dusseldorf When Olaf Scholz returns to Hamburg this Friday, he will not be happy. Here, in his private and…
Scholz has to answer these 8 questions
Chancellor Scholz in the Cum-Ex scandal (Photo: Imago, dpa, Getty Images) Dusseldorf When Olaf Scholz returns to Hamburg this Friday, he will not be happy. Here, in his private and…
191 million reclaimed for cum-ex
Entrance of the Warburg Bank in Hamburg The private bank wrongly feels that it has been financially punished. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf The public prosecutor’s office in Bonn is demanding 190.6…
How Landesbanken reached into the state coffers
Peter Tschentscher (left) and Norbert Walter-Borjans Hamburg’s mayor and the ex-WestLB supervisory board were poorly informed about the cum-ex transactions of their state banks. (Photo: dpa, Imago, PR [M]) Dusseldorf…
How Landesbanken reached into the state coffers
Peter Tschentscher (left) and Norbert Walter-Borjans Hamburg’s mayor and the ex-WestLB supervisory board were poorly informed about the cum-ex transactions of their state banks. (Photo: dpa, Imago, PR [M]) Dusseldorf…
This is how the start of the second trial against Hanno Berger went
Cum-Ex trial against Hanno Berger in Wiesbaden In the billion-dollar tax scandal surrounding cum-ex stock deals, a second trial against key figure Hanno Berger has begun. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf Chief…
Raid on Frankfurt branch of Bank of America
Merrill Lynch lettering The US investment bank already recognized in the early 2000s the profits to be made from cum-ex deals. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf A large contingent of 80 prosecutors,…
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…
Switzerland has approved the extradition of Hanno Berger
Hanno Berger The 71-year-old is accused of various offenses in the Cum-Ex tax affair. (Photo: Simon Habegger / 13 Photo) Dusseldorf Hanno Berger’s days in the Cazis Tignez prison are…
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…
Tax attorney Hanno Berger is fighting against extradition to Germany
Hanno Berger The 71-year-old is accused of various offenses in the Cum-Ex tax affair. (Photo: Simon Habegger / 13 Photo) Cologne Hanno Berger doesn’t give up. It was not until…