Tag: taxpayer
Cum-Ex deals: Investment bankers in the dock
Bonn – District Court of Bonn Judge Roland Zickler found the former risk analyst at MM Warburg guilty of two counts of tax evasion on Wednesday. (Photo: Reuters) The Bonn…
Cum-Ex deals: Investment bankers in the dock
District Court of Bonn Judge Roland Zickler on Wednesday found the former risk analyst at MM Warburg guilty of two counts of tax evasion. (Photo: Reuters) Bonn The criminal proceedings…
Did the bank launder money for a drug lord?
Credit Suisse branch in Zurich Zurich It was the surprise at the start of the trial: Evelin Banev, a convicted Bulgarian drug lord, is to be questioned before the Swiss…
Prosecutor demands 7 years in prison for Warburg bankers
District Court of Bonn A former top manager of Warburg Invest, a subsidiary of the Hamburg MM Warburg Group, is on trial here. (Photo: Reuters) Cologne In the criminal proceedings…
Investigators search offices in Frankfurt
PwC in Frankfurt A contingent of around 30 police officers, public prosecutors and tax investigators has been searching the auditing firm’s offices since Wednesday morning. (Photo: imago images / Jan…
Court sees MM Warburg in duty
Deutsche Bank towers in Frankfurt Bank MM Warburg has sued Deutsche Bank – it is becoming increasingly unlikely that Hamburg will be right. (Photo: Reuters) Dusseldorf This is not a…
Employ domestic help legally and save on taxes
This was announced by Federal Labor Minister Hubertus Heil (SPD) a few days ago. “I have a technical solution in mind, for example in the form of an app that…
The Freshfields secret customer list
Lettering by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer The law firm is the focus of the Cum-Ex investigation. (Photo: imago images/Alexander Pohl) Dusseldorf When the Freshfields law firm was searched in late summer…
Credit Suisse’s chief inspector violates corona rules
Zurich António Horta-Osório, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Credit Suisse, could not have foreseen the consequences of his business trip when he got off the company’s private jet…
The number of proceedings and accused is increasing massively
Section symbols on a courthouse The public prosecutor’s offices in Cologne, Frankfurt, Munich and Stuttgart are busy with cum-ex criminal proceedings. (Photo: dpa) Cologne For around ten years, prosecutors have…
Tax attorney Hanno Berger is fighting against extradition to Germany
Hanno Berger The 71-year-old is accused of various offenses in the Cum-Ex tax affair. (Photo: Simon Habegger / 13 Photo) Cologne Hanno Berger doesn’t give up. It was not until…
Why a tax donation from millionaires wouldn’t work
Düsseldorf’s luxury mile Königsallee Donate money to the tax authorities? The vast majority of German millionaires lack the motivation for this. (Photo: imago images / Michael Gstettenbauer) Berlin Wealthy people…
Tax attorney Hanno Berger before extradition to Germany
Proceedings against Hanno Berger Berger is one of the main suspects in the tax scandal. (Photo: via REUTERS) Dusseldorf After around ten years, the end of Hanno Berger’s exile in…
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…
Tax claims against SEB Bank rise to 900 million euros
Dusseldorf First the investigators came, then the mail from the tax office: The major Swedish bank SEB and its German subsidiary DSK Hyp are under massive pressure because of questionable…
Raid on the German headquarters of the major Swedish bank
SEB logo Doing business at the expense of German taxpayers? (Photo: Bloomberg) Dusseldorf More than 80 police officers, tax investigators and public prosecutors have been searching the German headquarters of…
French court orders UBS to pay 1.8 billion euros
UBS European headquarters in Frankfurt Originally, the bank was supposed to pay a fine of 3.7 billion euros, plus 800 million euros for damages and interest to the French state.…
Why taxpayers are giving away one billion euros
Tax office Low-income taxpayers in particular rarely file a tax return. That often costs them money. (Photo: dpa) Berlin Many taxpayers subconsciously forego a lot of money every year. Because…
Why taxpayers are giving away one billion euros
Tax office Low-income taxpayers in particular rarely file a tax return. That often costs them money. (Photo: dpa) Berlin Many taxpayers subconsciously forego a lot of money every year. Because…
3 German lawyers in the Swiss dock
Bank Sarasin logo in Geneva Two former bankers of the money house are on trial in Switzerland. (Photo: Reuters) Dusseldorf Coming to terms with the Cum-Ex affair is the number…