The felt-affair of Brandenburg investment Bank (ILB) extends a few months before the state election, despite all the denials of the ILB in The country for corruption cases to competent focus-office of the public Prosecutor Neuruppin has now launched an investigation, confirmed chief Prosecutor Frank Winter on Friday on request. “We determine on suspicion of the acceptance of an advantage against a Person and against two of the funding recipients.”

it is Determined, according to reports against the former ILB-unit Manager, Marion S. and an entrepreneur couple from the Barnim, the company had received in the last few years, 20 million euros in funding. S. was already a key figure in the funding of fraud and scandal of the Resort Schwielowsee in prison deceased hotelier Axel Hilpert.

the trigger for the investigation was the existence of a “Compliance report”, the ILB, in the year 2017, according to an investigation of similar allegations of corruption against S. had written. The neurppiner Prosecutor’s office had requested the Compliance report. There are to be found, according to reports that, contrary to previous ILB-representations of information on possible benefits for S., who had not taken the Compliance division of the development Bank, but seriously. For the Resort Schwielowsee, but also in the Barnim entrepreneur couple of the as a broker-working husband of the long-term ILB had also concluded-head of unit insurance contracts.

defense line breaks

With the new development, the previous line of defense, the ILB collapses. ILB-in-chief Tillmann Stenger, had declared on Thursday in the Finance Committee of the country day and on Wednesday the economic Committee, referring to the internal, for privacy reasons, the public Compliance report that there had been at the former examination, no points for misconduct on the part of S., from criminal and employment law.

And Stenger had also declared that he saw in the constellation, that the then-ILB-head of unit deals with funding procedures for companies with those of her husband, insurance contracts, no Problem. It is a manageable economy is now room, you “have the same group of customers”. The important thing is that there are no shortcuts, and that is guaranteed.

It speaks volumes that the state’s attorney, as was previously already the Deputy, after inspection of the files in the Compliance report, came to an opposite result, and now, according to RBB two objects browse and evidence secured.

The Act of ILB in the case was an “absolute disaster”

now That is determined, “surprised me at all,” said Saskia Ludwig, CDU member of Parliament and Chairman of the Finance Committee in the Parliament, which had insight in the Compliance report. The Left-the Deputy Margitta Powerful, had inspired after reading an ILB inquiry Committee. The Act of the ILB in the case was an “absolute disaster,” says Ludwig.

“It is incomprehensible that the ILB to the recurring References to the role of Mrs S. has not made a larger and clearer investigation to the damage of the Bank to avert.” Ludwig wondered why at the time, working the Potsdam public Prosecutor’s office came in 2010, and 2017 to different results, as there were similar allegations against Marion.

In the case of fraud to the Resort Schwielowsee, Marion S. was a main witness for the prosecution. Hilpert had declared in the processes, however, is always that the company’s design for the Resort Schwielowsee of the ILB-head of unit had been recommended what was best. You believed her, not Hilpert.

but Above all, Stenger had emphasized how consistently and strictly the internal control regulations of the ILB, with “Level 1”, “Level 2” and “Level 3”, technical Backups, and the Four-eyes-principle. Big cases of fraud, whether or not the Resort Schwielowsee, or in the case of the HBS-plasters factory in Luckenwalde (Teltow-Fläming), were, of course, has not been revealed by internal control systems, as in this case.

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