Michael Wendler: He reports after the arrest warrant has been issued

Michael Wendler (49) reacts to the issue of an arrest warrant against himself. After he did not appear for his trial before the Dinslaken district court, the judge in charge issued an arrest warrant against Wendler. This so-called arrest warrant is valid until the singer appears in court. The trial is about aiding and abetting a foreclosure in unity with bankruptcy in two cases. Wendler, however, remains in his adopted home Florida. Although his lawyer had already filed an objection to the arrest warrant, it remained in place for the time being.

The pop singer published a statement on the allegations on his Telegram account, on which he had drawn attention in the past with crude conspiracy theories. “Hello, dear ones, on my own behalf I would like to briefly explain myself to the court hearing in my old hometown of Dinslaken”, Wendler introduces his statement. He denied “all allegations and accusations against me from the penal order of the Duisburg public prosecutor’s office”: “I did not commit the offenses I was accused of.”

That is what the trial against Michael Wendler is about

The accusations are “absurd”, continues Wendler, because his ex-wife Claudia Norberg (50) never composed or wrote a song: “How can you transfer rights that you never had?” At the heart of the process is the question of whether Michael Wendler got into debt with his ex-wife Norberg when the record company CNI Records went bankrupt. Prosecutors claim he had 176 songs overwritten to minimize the fortunes of the company’s bankruptcy estate. An issued penalty order amounts to six months imprisonment on probation.

Wendler also argues that he would not evade the current negotiation and that he did not move to the USA because of it. His emigration was completely independent of the penal order issued against him in 2019. His defense lawyer had been fully informed about him and had received a “comprehensive, written power of attorney” from him to represent him during the main hearing.

Michael Wendler insists on the presumption of innocence

His presence was therefore superfluous, “since a regulation of representation is fully legally valid”. He wouldn’t have made a personal statement anyway. “Against this background, I cannot understand the decision of the Dinslaken district court to issue a so-called arrest warrant,” continues Wendler. The singer said the main hearing could have been held. At the end of his statement, Wendler makes it clear: “The presumption of innocence applies until the final judgment.”