Tag: tax evasion
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…
Fund manager and 2 Warburg bankers in court
District Court of Bonn In addition to the Varengold business, the charges against the four Duet managers include eight US funds with which cum-ex deals were to be made in…
Bafin initiates special tests against Hauck Aufhäuser Lampe and Varengold Bank
Headquarters of the Varengold Bank in Hamburg The institute is a well-known name in criminal proceedings relating to tax offences. (Photo: Varengold Bank AG) Dusseldorf The financial regulator Bafin wants…
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…
Attorney General charges jailed banker
Fortis Bank Insiders assign the Belgian-Dutch financial group a central role in the cum-ex scandal. (Photo: 𧋴Px Unreleased Plus/Getty Images) Dusseldorf Tall, well dressed and always exceedingly polite. Former colleagues…
Grace period for longtime Warburg boss Olearius
Private bank MM Warburg & CO The interim proceedings against the former top banker Christian Olearius of the private bank will be postponed. (Photo: IMAGO/Hanno Bode) Cologne Serious breakdown at…
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…
Bonn district court allows charges against four Duet fund managers
passers-by in London The main suspect in this case is the head of the London fund company Duet. (Photo: Reuters) Cologne The fund company Duet from London is only known…
KPMG Law separates from suspicious partner after raid
Frankfurt skyline Apparently, KPMG Law was late in recognizing that one of its partners was no longer tenable. (Photo: Reuters) Cologne It’s over again after less than six months: KPMG…
Tax authorities hunt tax evaders on online platforms
woman at the computer If you sell a lot online, you should keep a sales diary. (Photo: DigitalVision/Getty Images) Frankfurt Online trading is booming. Thanks to marketplaces such as Airbnb,…
Why Germany is not making progress in digitization
Desperate woman with paper mess The state demands a lot without creating the digital infrastructure. (Photo: imago stock&people) Berlin For people with their own property, time is running out: At…
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…
NRW tax investigator Birgit Orths – perpetrators are global and we are not
tax investigation Some of the officials have to buy their own equipment because there is a lack of funds. (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt Whether cum-ex, tax havens or fraud with Corona…
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…
First convicted ex-top banker from MM Warburg has to serve a prison sentence
MM Warburg & Co., involved in the Cum-Ex scandal The convict was part of the private bank. (Photo: IMAGO/Hanno Bode) Dusseldorf A long, successful career ends behind bars. More than…
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…