Delicate SMS
“Moin boss, I have a problem and need advice”
The CUM-EX investigations against SPD man Johannes Kahrs were hired, but the public prosecutor’s office is pursuing a new trail. About searches and SMS to the Federal President.
The Nicholas Day 2024 was actually a good day for Johannes Kahrs. At that time, the public prosecutor hired the investigation that had been running against him for some time. The suspicion that Kahrs helped the Hamburger Warburg-Bank to postpone taxes did not seem to be proven. At that time they also breathed in at the Chancellery. The tax affair around Warburg-Bank has also been burdening Olaf Scholz for years.
But the case is probably not over yet, not even for Kahrs. Because the investigators did not find a tax evasion lane on the cell phone of the former member of the Bundestag and ex-bosses of the SPD Hamburg-Mitte, but they stumbled across something else. A “potential random find”, as the North Rhine-Westphalian Minister of Justice Benjamin Limbach informed the committee of inquiry in Hamburg in mid-January. That is why the public prosecutor’s office initiated a separate pre -determination procedure.
At the request of the star don’t say. “Al Capone once didn’t get it because of murder,” says an investigator about star. “But because of a completely different offense.”
Cum-Ex: Johannes Kahrs is a key figure in suspicious donations to the SPD
Kahrs has been a key figure in the Cum-Ex complex for years. And a lot has already been reported on the donations of Warburg Bank to the Hamburg SPD of 45,500 euros and the associated tax scandal. Dem star There are now new documents that show how close the investigators were to search even to search off the SPD offices. In addition, several text messages allow a look behind the scenes of power. They make it clear how the well -networked Kahrs specifically looked for help from prominent party friends in order to avert professional damage from him. For example in 2023.
At that time it was about a board of trustees in the Helmut Schmidt Foundation. The administration of the Federal Presidential Office did not want to re-appoint Kahrs to the committee, apparently the investigation that the public prosecutor’s office led against him in the Cum-Ex complex seemed too stressful. So Kahrs worked on the Federal President.
In May 2023 he lighted Frank-Walter Steinmeier:
Source: Stern
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