Bosbach’s counterattack: “aim to damage my credibility”

The CDU member of the Bundestag, Caroline Bosbach, defends itself against allegations around a cash payment of 2500 euros, which she accepted from a former CDU employee in January 2025. After research by starRTL and NTV landed the money from a CDU party account in January via detours in cash near Bosbach. Her lawyers had admitted days ago that the Christian Democrat had accepted the money, but so far has not explained why she was doing this.

Bosbach is still still silent about the background, in a short video only claims not to have enriched itself. “I have not enriched myself and the CDU Rhein-Berg did not damage,” said the member of the Bundestag in the video. There were also no false invoices “as claimed by the trainee, which has now been dismissed”.

She also never submitted reimbursable expenses in the election campaign. In the video, however, she does not answer why she accepted the 2500 euros from the former CDU employee as it does not answer the question of why she did not bill alleged campaign expenses.

Her lawyer had already spoken of a dirty campaign against Bosbach, but so far it has not been able to clarify central questions. Bosbach is the daughter of the long-time CDU member of the Bundestag Wolfgang Bosbach, she belongs to the Rhein-Berg CDU district association.

Most recently, the 35-year-old was criticized for new reports, according to which one of her career steps had been paid in order to individual party members to organize majorities. The ARD magazine Contrast For this, three oath insurance had submitted by previous party friends. The chat courses on which one of these cases is based are manipulated, Bosbach claims in the video-as before. However, she has not yet been able to prove that parts of the chat affected were actually deleted. Also that star the chat is available.

The aim is to damage their credibility, complains Bosbach. She explains her retreat from the public as follows: “I don’t want the fictitious and manipulated allegations against me to be the subject of the discussions. That would be the case with every public appearance at the moment.”

It is highly questionable whether she can end the discussions about her person with her statements. In the evening, the party meets in its circle for the next crisis meeting. The Cologne public prosecutor also employs allegations against Bosbach. The CDU Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis handed over the relevant documents, the content of which should now be appreciated from a criminal point of view, said, Chief Prosecutor Ulrich Bremer.