Bundestag Vice-President Wolfgang Kubicki is convinced that the AfD will be sanctioned because of their donations affair hard. “I don’t expect only the early political end of Alice ryegrass, but also tough sanctions against the party,” he told the “Handelsblatt”. Whether the AfD will politically and financially, of this recover, is not identified. Kubicki, who is also FDP Deputy chief, reiterated the “suspicion of money-laundering” in the game.
Claudia Roth, who is also Vice-President of the Bundestag, was equally indignant. “The financial management of the AfD stinks to high heaven and requires a full investigation,” said the Green politician of the Newspapers of the Funke media group. “If the doubts are now in the room, we talk here of deliberate deception of the German Bundestag and an obviously systematic fraud.” As named recipient of the donations ryegrass was “personally responsible”.
In the heart of the donations scandal, a receipt of money is in an account of the AfD regional Association lake Constance, from the year 2017 in the amount of 130,000 euros. It is unclear who the donors are. The AfD was sent to the Bundestag a list of 14 donors. However, the Prosecutor’s office of Konstanz, believed that this list is wrong.
Previous questioning had confirmed “beyond a reasonable doubt, that the people, in fact, the alleged donor,” said state attorney Andreas Mathy. Searches of the “mirror” and “Report Mainz,” according to the alleged patrons of the AfD have disputed to have the party of money donated. Would you rather get money, so that they expenditure as a donor.
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The Prosecutor’s office determined against the AfD group Chairman in the Bundestag, Alice rye, and three other members of their district Association at the lake of Constance because of the suspicion of a violation of the party law. The party had confirmed in November that a Swiss pharmaceutical company in 2017, had paid 130,000 euros, in several tranches to the AfD-kreisverband lake Constance.
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130,000 euros from the Switzerland office of the public Prosecutor doubts AfD donor list
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The money was paid back according to the figures, in the spring of 2018. Donations of Non-EU citizens to German political parties are illegal. So-called straw-man donations, in which the true money is to donors to be concealed, are prohibited. The party fines threaten: the two would have to pay – up to three times the money at the outset, should not have been reported, the donation correctly to the Bundestag. (dpa)