Tag: Hanno Berger
Investigators search law firm and other company
Frankfurt skyline The public prosecutor’s office confirmed that “as of today, they are executing a search warrant against a law firm in Frankfurt am Main”. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf The commercial…
Investigators search law firm and other company
Frankfurt skyline The public prosecutor’s office confirmed that “as of today, they are executing a search warrant against a law firm in Frankfurt am Main”. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf The commercial…
Hanno Berger appeals to the Federal Court of Justice
Cum-Ex trial against tax attorney Hanno Berger The 72-year-old was a driving force in the share deals, in which financial players staged a confusion about the dividend record date and…
Hanno Berger appeals to the Federal Court of Justice
Cum-Ex trial against tax attorney Hanno Berger The 72-year-old was a driving force in the share deals, in which financial players staged a confusion about the dividend record date and…
The search for the formula for the future: The editor-in-chief’s weekly review
Good morning dear readers, The more we think about the future in the current crisis, the more we are really dealing with the past. Which brings us to the debate…
Eight years in prison for tax attorney Hanno Berger
Hanno Berger The 72-year-old has had a deep fall. He was once one of the most renowned tax lawyers. Now he has been sentenced to the highest prison sentence to…
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…
Economy needs morals: the trust capital melts
Lady Justice in action Recently, more scandals in the executive floors have become public again. If anything can still frighten the powerful of the economy, then it is the real…
Tax attorney Hanno Berger has to go to prison for many years
Hanno Berger The 72-year-old has had a deep fall. He was once one of the most renowned tax lawyers. Now he has been sentenced to the highest prison sentence to…
Prosecutors are demanding nine years in prison for Hanno Berger
Hanno Berger (middle) During a break in the proceedings before the Bonn Regional Court, the tax lawyer is talking to two of his criminal defense lawyers. Since April he has…
Raid on relatives of Hanno Berger
Tax attorney Hanno Berger Berger faces 15 years in prison for his role in cum-ex deals. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf Hanno Berger is considered the most important head in Germany’s biggest…
Two former HVB bankers sentenced to suspended sentences
District Court of Wiesbaden The fourth Cum-Ex trial ends with guilty verdicts. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf/Wiesbaden It’s not often that bank advisors are convicted for helping clients evade taxes. This was…
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…
Apobank submits an invoice to the Warburg Group
Pharmacy bank in Berlin Warburg Invest managed the fund, Apobank acted as custodian bank. (Photo: mauritius images / Schoening / Alamy) Dusseldorf You always meet twice in life, this time…
Prosecutors indict four foreign investment bankers
The trial against Cum-Ex key figure Berger started in April The case now indicted involves two funds. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf The Cologne public prosecutor has presented the next indictment in…
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…
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…
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…
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…