Tag: Cum-Ex
Warburg and BNY Mellon pay back 60 million to the Treasury
MM Warburg & CO According to information from the Handelsblatt, the Hamburg private bank has transferred around 30 million to the Federal Central Tax Office. (Photo: imago images/Hanno Bode) Dusseldorf…
Russia and China form an alliance
in these times, when geostrategic thinking in spheres of influence is back, it is worth taking a look at the power of images. The length of a table, for example,…
Oldenburgische Landesbank bags the purchase of Degussa Bank
Oldenburg State Bank According to financial circles, the institute has bagged the takeover of Degussa Bank. (Photo: Oldenburgische Landesbank) Frankfurt The Oldenburgische Landesbank (OLB) is making the next purchase. The…
Cum-Ex: The Showdown in Court
Dusseldorf Benjamin Frey’s statements fill several hundred pages in the files of the Cologne public prosecutor’s office. The business lawyer testified for hours, for days. He confirmed everything that his…
Oldenburgische Landesbank bags the purchase of Degussa Bank
Oldenburg State Bank According to financial circles, the institute has bagged the takeover of Degussa Bank. (Photo: Oldenburgische Landesbank) Frankfurt The Oldenburgische Landesbank (OLB) is preparing the next takeover before…
Key witness unpacks against Hanno Berger
Hanno Berger The tax lawyer Hanno Berger is in custody and is looking forward to a possibly long prison sentence. This is also due to the statements of a former…
The cum-ex master and his foster son
Dusseldorf It’s going to be a showdown. Hanno Berger and Benjamin Frey were once close partners. Today Berger calls his former foster son a traitor. Frey speaks of Berger as…
Scholz will not be invited to the finance committee for the time being because of Cum-Ex
Olaf Scholz The SPD politician can apparently no longer remember the content of the discussions with Warburg co-owner Christian Olearius. (Photo: dpa) Chancellor Olaf Scholz was not invited to the…
Investigators search major US bank JP Morgan in Frankfurt
Frankfurt skyline Almost every major bank is now the focus of investigators because of involvement in cum-ex deals. (Photo: imago images / Westend61) Frankfurt Public prosecutors, tax investigators and police…
Cologne public prosecutor takes back millions from Lehman
A former Lehman employee vacates his office in London on September 15, 2008 The investment bank, which was wound up years ago, is just one of many involved in the…
Action without a perpetrator – how politics and the judiciary make a fool of themselves in the Cum-Ex scandal
Dusseldorf The rescue of WestLB after the financial crisis is said to have cost up to 18 billion euros – this is how the then NRW Finance Minister Norbert Walter-Borjans…
The self-defence chancellor – Olaf Scholz is running out of time
Chancellor Olaf Scholz There is no longer any trace of a spirit of optimism in the traffic light coalition. (Photo: dpa) The pollsters tell the story of an astonishing transformation:…
Putin friend wants to use German gas surcharge
Germany has become the full supplier of an energy supplier, who bet in vain on the continuation of the Gazprom monopoly. We are talking about the bursting Düsseldorf colossus Uniper,…
No suspicion of Scholz because of Cum-Ex
Olaf Scholz The investigations against the Federal Chancellor are not started. (Photo: dpa) Berlin / Hamburg In the so-called Cum-Ex affair, the Hamburg Attorney General dismissed a complaint against the…
Landesbanken in the cum-ex scandal: executive floors as a judicial-free zone
Dusseldorf There are five letters that have burned themselves into the public consciousness: Cum-Ex. Banks and tax attorneys invented a way to get themselves and their wealthy customers back more…
Court examines confiscation of Warburg millions
Private bank MM Warburg In the judgment of the Bonn Regional Court, the bank was obliged to repay more than 176 million euros. (Photo: IMAGO/Hanno Bode) Dusseldorf The public prosecutor’s…
Warburg-Bank: Collection of “cum-ex” millions suspended
Private bank MM Warburg In the judgment of the Bonn Regional Court, the bank was obliged to repay more than 176 million euros. (Photo: IMAGO/Hanno Bode) Bonn The public prosecutor’s…
Financial regulator criticizes shortcomings at Clearstream.
German Stock Exchange The public prosecutor’s office has intensified its investigation into the group’s possible involvement in the cum-ex business. (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt The financial regulator Bafin is taking action…
Hanno Berger must not receive a penalty discount
Hanno Berger The defendant tax attorney Hanno Berger talks to his attorney. (Photo: Reuters) Bizarre scenes take place in the district court of Bonn. The defenders of the accused tax…
Warburg bankers deny payment to SPD politician Johannes Kahrs
Johannes Kahrs The SPD member of the Bundestag may have been involved in the cum-ex transactions of the Hamburg Warburg Bank. (Photo: imago/Metodi Popow) Dusseldorf “Cum-Ex: Investigators find 200,000 euros…