Unfaithful
Landtag in Magdeburg: Office of the CDU, SPD and AfD
Three parliamentary groups in Saxony-Anhalt are said to have paid inadmissible allowances. Investigators search their offices.
Due to the suspicion of the infidelity, investigators have searched the CDU, SPD and AfD’s business and faction areas in the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt. “We search the CDU, SPD and AfD’s business and faction areas because there is a suspicion of the infidelity,” said a spokesman for the Magdeburg public prosecutor at the request of the German Press Agency.
The background to the searches on Tuesday morning is the suspicion that those responsible could have illegally paid functional allowances within the political groups. The basis of the investigation is an advertisement by the federal taxpayer. On the basis of judicial orders from the Magdeburg District Court, the mission was carried out together with the State Criminal Police Office, it continued.
The assignment continued in the morning. The public prosecutor initially did not provide any further information. Even the affected state parliamentary groups did not want to comment at first. The respective spokesman for the CDU, SPD and AfD announced on request that you could not yet provide any information.
dpa
Source: Stern
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