Mallorca trip
Corruption allegations against the Thuringian BSW dual leadership
The Erfurt public prosecutor’s office wants to investigate the Thuringian BSW ministers Katja Wolf and Steffen Schütz. It’s about a trip to Mallorca – and the suspicion of corruption.
It’s about a trip to Mallorca and payments for a project by the city of Eisenach: two BSW ministers in the new Thuringian blackberry government are to be investigated on suspicion of corruption. According to dpa information, the Erfurt public prosecutor’s office requested that the immunity of Thuringia’s Finance Minister Katja Wolf and Infrastructure Minister Steffen Schütz be lifted. The allegations relate to the time before she took office. The two have immunity because they are also members of the state parliament.
Committee decides whether to waive immunity
The Justice Committee is expected to decide this afternoon whether to lift their immunity, committee sources said. Wolf and Schütz only want to comment on the allegations after the committee meeting.
The background is a trip from Wolf to Mallorca to Schütz’s private property before the state elections in 2024. At that time, Wolf was still mayor of the city of Eisenach. According to dpa information, the Erfurt public prosecutor’s office wants to investigate the question of whether Wolf was bribed by Schütz in connection with this trip. Schütz’s marketing company was involved in Eisenach’s application as a location for a future center for German unity and European transformation, but Halle was ultimately awarded the contract.
Investigations against the BSW dual leadership were already underway
According to dpa information, the investigation had already begun and has now become known through the necessary lifting of the two’s immunity. After the state elections in autumn 2024, Wolf and Schütz entered the Thuringian state parliament as BSW representatives; they are now members of the cabinet of the new Prime Minister Mario Voigt (CDU), who has forged a coalition of CDU, BSW and SPD.
Members of the Thuringian state parliament enjoy protection from criminal prosecution, the so-called parliamentary immunity. Criminal investigations against them are generally only permitted with the consent of the state parliament or the parliament’s justice committee.
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Source: Stern
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