Tag: Tax scandal
Allegations of sabotage from Hamburg hit North Rhine-Westphalia Minister of Justice
Dusseldorf The Ministry of Justice in North Rhine-Westphalia has been refusing to send important documents on the Cum-Ex tax scandal to Hamburg for a year. There, a committee of inquiry…
Freshfields’ top attorney in the dock
In a previous life, Ulf Johannemann once guarded the goal of Prussia Munster. Then he decided to study law, passed the first state exam in 1996 and never looked back.…
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…
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…
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…
“I don’t believe a word the chancellor says”
Friedrich Merz The CDU boss would let the German nuclear power plants run longer. (Photo: dpa) Berlin Before the questioning of Olaf Scholz (SPD) in the parliamentary committee of inquiry…
“I don’t believe a word the chancellor says”
Friedrich Merz The CDU boss would let the German nuclear power plants run longer. (Photo: dpa) Berlin Before the questioning of Olaf Scholz (SPD) in the parliamentary committee of inquiry…
“I don’t believe a word the chancellor says”
Friedrich Merz The CDU boss would let the German nuclear power plants run longer. (Photo: dpa) Berlin Before the questioning of Olaf Scholz (SPD) in the parliamentary committee of inquiry…
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…
Hanno Berger’s defenders throw in the towel
Hanno Berger The string puller in the Cum-Ex tax affair is facing two processes. He faces a long prison sentence. (Photo: Simon Habegger / 13 Photo) Dusseldorf It could hardly…
Without Anne Brorhilker, the scandal would probably never have been cleared up
Dusseldorf At the beginning of her career she dealt with drug addicts and petty criminals, but from 2013 prosecutor Anne Brorhilker entered the world of investment bankers and the super-rich.…
Germany’s biggest tax scandal, Cum-Ex, affects you too!
Corruption, unscrupulousness, megalomania: in our new podcast we report on the most spectacular criminal cases in the German economy. Accompany the Handelsblatt investigative team into the abyss of high finance…
Sparda Bank Berlin: Another search for Cum-Ex
Sparda-Bank Berlin The credit union was searched. (Photo: picture-alliance / ZB) Berlin This year’s annual report of Sparda-Bank Berlin is titled with the word “Hope”. Since this week, the leadership…
Another search for Cum-Ex at Sparda Bank Berlin
Sparda-Bank Berlin The credit union was searched. (Photo: picture-alliance / ZB) Berlin This year’s annual report of Sparda-Bank Berlin is titled with the word “Hope”. Since this week, the leadership…