Tag: cumex
Cum-Ex trial against Christian Olearius begins
Bonn At 10 a.m. sharp, Christian Olearius enters meeting room S 0.11 in the Bonn Regional Court. Surrounded by four defense lawyers, the banker accused of tax evasion stands in…
Cum-Ex trial against Hamburg banker Olearius begins
Bonn Regional Court Starting Monday, Hamburg banker Christian Olearius will have to answer the court for cum-ex transactions. (Photo: dpa) Bonn A trial against the Hamburg banker Christian Olearius begins…
Cum-Ex trial against Hamburg banker Olearius begins
Bonn Regional Court Starting Monday, Hamburg banker Christian Olearius will have to answer the court for cum-ex transactions. (Photo: dpa) Bonn A trial against the Hamburg banker Christian Olearius begins…
Cum-Ex “too good to be true”
Maple Bank lettering In the case of cum-ex transactions, which Maple Bank ran under the name “German Pair Strategy”, banks and investors never had any capital gains taxes paid refunded.…
Cum-Ex dispute between the Attorney General and ex-NRW Minister escalated
Peter Biesenbach In March 2023, the former North Rhine-Westphalia Minister of Justice lodged a complaint against the head of the Cologne public prosecutor’s office and his former deputy. (Photo: dpa)…
Hanno Berger sentenced to more than eight years in prison in the Cum-Ex trial
Hanno Berger in Wiesbaden In the second cum-ex trial against former tax attorney Hanno Berger, the Wiesbaden district court imposed a prison sentence of eight years and three months. (Photo:…
Prime suspect in cum-ex scandal faces extradition
Sanjay Shah The Briton was arrested at the Danish request. (Photo: Bloomberg/Getty Images) Dusseldorf Sanjay Shah has made a fortune doing business at the taxpayer’s expense. For a long time,…
Cum-Ex: Charges against Luxembourg fund managers
Paragraph sign on the entrance door of the Bonn Regional Court Cologne prosecutors have submitted a new charge in the Cum-Ex scandal to the Bonn Regional Court. (Photo: Ulrich Baumgarten…
Cum-Ex: Charges against Luxembourg fund managers
Paragraph sign on the entrance door of the Bonn Regional Court Cologne prosecutors have submitted a new charge in the Cum-Ex scandal to the Bonn Regional Court. (Photo: Ulrich Baumgarten…
NRW has to bear tax debts from WestLB cum-ex transactions
WestLB successor company Portigon Portigon, the legal successor to the broken-up Landesbank WestLB, loses in court and has to pay for tax liabilities from cum-ex transactions. (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt, Dusseldorf…
Cum-Ex process: Hanno Berger convicted
They called him the master, the cum-ex guru. Now he should go to jail. The Bonn Regional Court has sentenced the 72-year-old former star lawyer Hanno Berger to eight years…
The Break with the Cum-Ex Master (Part 3)
Bonn Together they earned millions, separately they are now in court. Benjamin Frey didn’t look at Hanno Berger when he took the witness stand in Bonn Regional Court in early…
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…
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…
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…
Scholz speaks to the Cum-Ex Committee
Olaf Scholz on Friday at the beginning of his statements to the committee of inquiry The Chancellor is to answer a series of questions before the committee. (Photo: Getty Images)…
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…
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…