Henning – who? The asked British journalists when they discovered that a Switzerland and bought a German real estate entrepreneur, and according to some of the most famous and historically most valuable buildings in London. Your value should be around 2.5 billion pounds. However, the family name Conle was so unknown, that it could not write to the British.
Henning – who? The questions also those of prosecutors in Germany and Switzerland, which investigate the donations from Zurich to prominent exponents of the German right-wing party my AfD .
Henning Conle: This is the man whom the journalists of the research group of WDR, NDR, “Süddeutscher Zeitung” and Tamedia now, as to those mysterious donors were able to identify who is behind the 150’000-CHF-election Boost, went 2017 from Switzerland to the AfD top candidate Alice ryegrass .
This seems to be a puzzle is solved, a lot of reporters in Germany and in Switzerland, almost half a year long busy. In November, the donation to the rye has been known. Transferred to the 150’000 Swiss francs in several instalments had been an account of the company PWS of the Zurich-based pharmacy owner Kurt Häfliger.
100’000 in my pocket
Häfliger kept the identity of the donor, at the time, a secret – and does it until today. Through his then legal representative, he had this newspaper to align, the money is donor, “a rich man from the zürich mountain”, the wool not to be named. For this man, the amount was not a lot of money, he’s carrying around “100’000 in my pocket”.
In Germany began to be interested in, however, the Bundestag administration and the Prosecutor’s office of Konstanz for the identity of the donor. Party donations from a Non-EU country such as Switzerland, are prohibited according to German law, when they amount to more than 1000 Euro.
On this list are agreed on as good as nothing.
Häfliger a list with 14 names sent shortly before Christmas, an alleged donor to the AfD, which led to the Bundestag administration. However, agreed on this list as much as anything. The donation amounts were wrong and the alleged donor turned out to be quickly as straw men, which were of no use, only their names and according to their own information, even getting paid for it.
This is also the qualified druggist to now Häfliger. His new lawyer, Valentin Landmann says: “It is true that on this list in the Main people are not, which are the donors. Mr. Häfliger, the truth has not felt obliged, and signed a crap.”
An “established business man”
fellow countryman who has just been selected for the SVP in the Zurich cantonal Parliament, want to know the name of the true donor is also not price. The most famous criminal defenders of the Switzerland reveals only The donor is a well-Known Häfligers, a “very well-established businessman, German citizen” who does not want to occur for business reasons personal. Illegal is nothing but the thing.
The Swiss-German research composite could be the difficult range AfD-supporters, now due to further carelessness in the written information by the pharmacy owner from the Zurich Berg to Berlin. This was achieved via a detour to Belgium. On the straw-men list submitted Häfliger, 13 people from Germany, and Belgians; Philippe M. who works for a real estate company in Antwerp. To make him a TV Reporter from WDR and NDR came to see, told M. that he had been asked by “a man from Switzerland”, his name.
research in the Belgian company registers showed: The company, for the M. works, is one of Henning Conle senior and junior. The family Conle has several residences in a private road on the zürichberg, close to the pharmacy by Kurt Häfliger.
The SVP supports
Neither father nor son Conle were found in the villas and they did not reply to written requests from the search network. Housekeeper talked about the family in the highest tones. The Conles together were very strong, they were very generous and “donate a lot”.
Known for her involvement in Swiss politics. In the case of the 100-year Celebration of the SVP of the Canton of Zurich two years ago, Henning Conle, Zurich was one of the “generous sponsors”, as the party organ “of Zurich, the messenger of the” reported gratefully. On the donor list for the anniversary celebration of the Name appears next to the Party variables, such as the national councils Thomas Matt or Roger Köppel, and to Christoph Blocher. Also, the long-time SVP is running and AfD candidate Alexander Segert from Andelfingen ZH, in the AfD-donations affair plays a Central role.
The Conles, the Zurich real estate management “Miwo”, which serves over 2500 rental apartments in Switzerland.
If the father and the son Conle SVP members are not allowed to bring in experience. The Junior at least, the takes also sporadically in Swiss Shooting competitions part, seems to have more than sympathy for the party. By the end of 2014, he was signed up for a tour of the SVP Stäfa to the toggenburg Restaurant of then-SVP-President Toni Brunner . The evening of entertainment “in a closed society,” with Willis Wyberkapelle he wanted to arrive according to the list of participants in the Car.
outside of the SVP, many of the Switzerland having to do nationals with the family. The Conles, the Zurich real estate management “Miwo”, which serves over 2500 rental apartments in Switzerland. “It is one of the largest and well known administrations,” confirmed the spokesman for the Zurich tenants ‘ Association, Walter fear. You the case but neither a positive nor a negative impact on: “Business as usual.”
the accusations in Germany
in Germany, This was partially different: There, the media reported the family Conle, especially in connection with allegations of inflated Rents, the dilapidated houses and the intimidation of tenants. It is possible that the part of the public disputes which have arisen has led to the Conles to support the right parties .
Originally, the Conle was kin to the left politically situate. The Foundation of your real estate Empire, the brothers Heinz and Kurt Conle in the post-war period in the Ruhr area. According to the former reports, in the “mirror” of the rose with the help of social-democratic Comrades to “SPD Baumillionären”. At the same time Kurt Conle participated in the private airline LTU, which belonged to before the Grounding for Swissair and later by AirBerlin has been accepted.
His brother, Heinz, is the father of the secret AfD-supporter Henning Conle senior, the expansion of the real estate business, first in Hamburg and Berlin, then to Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. And also he has involved his family into the business. Henning junior leads the Miwo in Zurich, a subsidiary of a British company by the name of “Scampi’s Kingdom”. The most valuable real estate in London, such as the “Shell Mex House”, the Liberty, or the Kensington Roof Gardens, the family bought Conle, according to media reports in the UK and Germany over the Liechtenstein Institute Sirosa.
The “balance sheet” of the assets of the Conles with 1 to 1.5 billion Swiss francs for the recording of the spouses Conle in the Zurich civil law, the municipality 49 000 francs’ve put in bills.
Different legal situation
In contrast to his wife, and his son of the same name, the income or assets of tens of millions of tax -. Henning Conle senior tax domicile in the city of Zurich His residence and his nationality could play in the AfD-tax affair is still a Central role. In Germany, the party donations from Non-EU-citizens are illegal.
“It was just a nonsense in a letter”: a lawyer Valentin Landmann. Photo: Keystone
In Switzerland have to fear because of the AfD-support alone, no one a law enforcement. The donations to parties, including foreign, are here, no offence. The Zurich Prosecutor’s office makes the Constance colleagues at legal aid. The Zurich-based pharmacy owner Häfliger is to be questioned as a witness. It is not about the Transfers for Alice ryegrass. In the foreground of the allegation of forgery, because Häfliger is a list with the wrong donor had sent name.
His legal representative Valentin Landmann doubt, however, that this allegation was justified. His client had signed a false statement, says farmer: “I see the but not as a deed. It was just a nonsense in a letter.”
(editing Tamedia)
Created: 04.04.2019, 17:00 Uhr
