Essen public prosecution office has opened a criminal investigation in the case of Guido Reil. The focus of in-kind contributions received by the AfD politicians for the elections in 2017 through a Swiss advertising Agency, free of charge. The AfD threaten in addition to a penalty payment of approximately 130 000 euros as well as criminal consequences. the Katja Riedel, and Sebastian Pittelkow, Berlin
In the AfD-donations affair has opened in the public Prosecutor’s office to eat, according to information from the süddeutsche Zeitung, NDR and WDR, a determination method in the case of Guido Reil. It comes to in-kind contributions received by the AfD-politician from eating for the elections in 2017 through the Swiss Agency Goal for free: poster donations, flyers and graphics in the value of 50 000 Euro./p>
in order for the AfD in the case of threaten of Reil, in addition to a penalty payment of approximately 130 000 Euro in the Bundestag administration and criminal consequences. While the punishment of the Bundestag administration of the entire party at the expense of, the investigations against individual “not-yet-known function of the AfD is involved in the accounting of the party for the year 2017,” as the Prosecutor’s office informs. Against Reil, the investigations are not directed, however. Reil had to do “within the party, neither with Finance nor with the book of leadership,” writes the Prosecutor’s office.
Reil, who is on the list of two to a mandate in the European Parliament, expressed surprise: “to Me, is a complete mystery, against whom the determination to put in place procedures in the party,” he said. “No one else from the party” had to do, except him.
was not Different than in the case of Alice ryegrass, it is not about the origin of money
unlike in the case of a 132 000-Euro donation from Switzerland to the constituency of Alice ryegrass in the Essen procedure, the origin of the money, with the election advertising paid for. In Essen, the investigators examine why the benefits have not been properly recorded in the accountability report. The investigations have a different focus than those of the public Prosecutor’s office of Konstanz, in the last week the Swiss authorities for legal assistance.
research by WDR, NDR and SZ have shown that it is in a number of questionable AfD-donation cases, could possibly have the same financiers. The two Swiss companies had made in the cases of Reil and ryegrass donations for the benefit of the AfD officials, submitted lists with names of alleged donors, in case of the Bundestag administration, which were part of the same. Name collisions were also donations in kind for party leader, Jörg Meuthen. The Prosecutor’s office of Konstanz sees in the case of ryegrass evidence that the name could not be the true financiers.
