Tag: Statute of limitations
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)…
The head of the Cologne public prosecutor surprisingly throws down
Building of the public prosecutor’s office in Cologne Cologne The largest investigative authority in North Rhine-Westphalia, with around 600 employees, needs a new boss: the previous head of the authority,…
Investigators search German offices of investment bank Natixis
Financial district in Frankfurt Another crackdown on the Cum-Ex tax scandal. This time the German branches of the investment bank Natixis are being searched. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf Around 60 public…
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:…
“Law firms are lagging behind when it comes to compliance”
Professor Lucia Sommerer In an interview, the legal scholar speaks about the convicted lawyer Hanno Berger. (Photo: Private) Cologne Lucia Sommerer is a German-American legal scholar with a research focus…
More than ten years imprisonment demanded for Hanno Berger
In the district court in Wiesbaden This is where the trial of tax attorney Hanno Berger is being conducted. (Photo: dpa) Wiesbaden In the Wiesbaden Cum-Ex trial against the tax…
More than ten years imprisonment demanded for Hanno Berger
In the district court in Wiesbaden This is where the trial of tax attorney Hanno Berger is being conducted. (Photo: dpa) Wiesbaden In the Wiesbaden “Cum-Ex” trial against the tax…
Major raid on banking giants in Paris
La Defense financial district in Paris German and French investigators search rooms of BNP Paribas, Société Générale, HSBC and Natixis. (Photo: dpa) Paris, Dusseldorf The scandal surrounding the massive evasion…
An indictment of the rule of law
Hanno Berger The tax attorney was sentenced to just eight years in prison instead of the maximum sentence of 15 years – because the state is too slow. (Photo: dpa)…
Supervision complaint against the head of the Cologne public prosecutor’s office
Dispute in the NRW judiciary Benjamin Limbach, Anne Brorhilker and Peter Biesenbach (left to right): Are the authorities pushing the Cum-Ex investigations with all their might? Dusseldorf The clarification of…
Supervision complaint against the head of the Cologne public prosecutor’s office
Dispute in the NRW judiciary Benjamin Limbach, Anne Brorhilker and Peter Biesenbach (left to right): Are the authorities pushing the Cum-Ex investigations with all their might? Dusseldorf The clarification of…
Convicted Warburg banker fails with constitutional complaint
Lady Justice statue According to the Constitutional Court, the verdict is unobjectionable. (Photo: dpa) Cologne Christian S., ex-plenipotentiary of the Hamburg private bank MM Warburg Bank, has failed with his…
Investigators are frisking BNP Paribas in Frankfurt
Dusseldorf Since Tuesday, around 130 public prosecutors, tax investigators and police officers have searched the offices of the major French bank BNP Paribas in Frankfurt and the private homes of…
Dispute between WestLB successors goes to the Federal Court of Justice
Portigon flags The institute wants to use legal means to force the first liquidation institution to take over the tax authorities’ claims for reimbursement. (Photo: dpa) Cologne, Frankfurt The billion-euro…
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…
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…