The prosecutor Berlin thought about asking that waiver of immunity parliamentary and lead an inquiry for corruption against the German finance minister Christian Lindner. In fact, a spokesman for the public prosecutor’s office confirmed to the capital’s newspaper Tagesspiegel that the new special anti-corruption department is currently taking appropriate measures test. The minister and chairman of the Liberals (Fdp) landed in the storm for one Video in which he spoke well of the BB bankthe same bank that gave him one new credit under a loan used to purchase a hometown. It’s a private bank Karlsruhe.
The procedure goes back to an article in Der Spiegel from last October, in which the weekly newspaper wrote about the purchase of a two-family house in Berlin by Lindner with a value of 1.65 million occurred at January 2021. For sale a house in the residential area of NikolasseeLindner recorded one in February land loan for a total of 2.8 million euros at BBBank. The difference between the purchase price and the accepted loan amount would be approx 1.15 million euros, a figure considered unusually high in the real estate sector. However, the house was off renovate.
In May 2022, as finance minister, Lindner shot a video at the ministry to mark BBBank’s 100th anniversary. According to the manuscript quoted by Bild, the liberal politician says in the video: “BBBank is mine kind. Citizens, and especially civil servants, should be able to get funds to build their homes.” A few weeks later, in early July, the minister announced Second request of mortgage debt, of 450,000 euros. Lindner’s lawyer, Christian jokehe claimed after the Spiegel article that there weren’t any links between the video message and the loan received. The lawyer also rejected all allegations this time and argued that the financing of private real estate had begun long before Lindner took office in December 2021. “And that under market-typical conditions,” he said. added the lawyer, dismissing the suspicion that Lindner may have received advantages or there are links to your message about the credit institution.
“It is not unusual that the ministers hold greetings for various institutions and at various events” and the communication office of the ministry “was decided to favor‘ sent by Finance Minister Christian Lindner to the BBBbank in Karlsruhe and is now the subject of the attention of the Berlin public prosecutor’s office. The ministry spokeswoman said: Nadine kalwey, at a press conference in Berlin, answered questions about prosecutors’ checks on a possible request to lift the Liberal leader’s parliamentary immunity in order to open an investigation. “We have taken note of the article dealing with the prosecutor’s examination of the possibility of a request for the waiver of the finance minister’s immunity,” the spokeswoman said. “The bank had applied in April 2022 a word of welcome from the minister and the dedicated communications department,” he continued. “It is not uncommon for ministries to make such interventions for different institutions and at different events,” he added. “The minister’s lawyer has already spoken and checks have been ongoing since then I won’t add anything more‘ Kalwey concluded.