SPD parliamentary group leader Carsten Schneider criticizes a “concealment” of the large donation of 250,000 euros to the CDU via “windy letterbox companies”. Financial investor Lars Windhorst is behind the companies that gave the money to the federal CDU. In July, the donation was preceded by a joint dinner for entrepreneurs and candidate for Chancellor Armin Laschet in Berlin. Lars Windhorst was also invited here.
The SPD has asked CDU leader Armin Laschet to clarify the latest party donation from financial investor Lars Windhorst to the CDU. “As long as it is not clear from which channels Mr. Windhorst the money comes from, the CDU must return the donation immediately,” said SPD parliamentary group leader Carsten Schneider stern.
Schneider pointed out that the financial supervisory authority reported Bafin Windhorst to the Berlin public prosecutor’s office a few weeks ago. “Nevertheless, after a donation dinner with Laschet, the CDU accepts a very large campaign donation from him,” Schneider said. In addition, the SPD MP criticized the lack of transparency in the donation: “Why is the origin of the donation being disguised by windy letterbox companies in the British Virgin Islands and Luxembourg?”
Financial investor Windhorst donated 250,000 euros to the CDU and FDP
After the criminal investigation became known, Windhorst dismissed all allegations in the summer on suspicion of inadmissible banking transactions by one of his companies.
At the end of last week, a company that the financial investor controls via a complicated company structure transferred 250,000 euros each to the CDU and FDP. Both parties reported the donation on Monday. According to the Political Parties Act, the parties must inform the President of the Bundestag “immediately” about large donations of more than 50,000 euros.
Windhorst was also one of several entrepreneurs who had taken part in a dinner organized by the CDU with business representatives in July. The sternreported today. In response to several inquiries, the federal CDU had not commented on the occasion and the background to the appointment in the Pan Am Lounge in Berlin.
Another major donation to the Christian Democrats was also announced today. A so-called ad hoc announcement on the Bundestag website shows that entrepreneur Stephan Schambach transferred an amount of 300,000 euros to the CDU yesterday. Schambach is one of the e-commerce pioneers in Germany. His best-known company is the software company Intershop. This year Schambach had already donated 200,000 euros to the FDP.
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