Helmut Kohl’s widow, Maike Kohl-Richter doesn’t have to fear criminal investigations due to missing Chancellery files. The Palatinate, the higher regional court of Zweibrücken has rejected a request for the inclusion of appropriate investigation as unfounded. There had been no suspicion of a criminal Offence, – is spoken in the decision of 8. In January, the daily mirror (Az.: 1 Ws 26/18).
Following his deselection of the 2017 deceased, the CDU is said to have taken politicians, hundreds of Files, many of which in his former house, to store. Kohl-Richter does not argue, however, that she is “in possession of official documents of the Federal government”. In contrast, the Federal archives had turned in Koblenz shortly after Kohl’s death, to the widow and to a return of official files.
Whether cabbage-judge the information that they had no Federal documents that fully corresponds to the facts is unclear. Recently, the Federal court of audit (BRH) had the handling of the Chancellery with the cabbage-files criticized: “Such documents have already been allowed to the respective Amtsende not from the Federal Chancellery is taken,” – said in a report. Nevertheless, they had been the retiring incumbents leave.
The two brückener higher regional court had to deal with the case after a journalist had displayed the cabbage-heiress, among other things, due to embezzlement and safekeeping fracture. As a custody break will be punished, if someone service removes documents from the competent authority. In the opinion of the judges the files not being in official custody. “Rather, it was the former Federal Chancellor Dr. Kohl to decide about the whereabouts of the files after the end of his term of office”, – stated in the decision. In this case, the court expressly invoked the BRH report described “practices” in the Chancellery.
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for embezzlement there is no initial suspicion, since the cabbage not to have acted in judges intentionally. order After the former Chancellor let the files first to the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and later to his residence transferring, cabbage can judge assume “that it is entitled as heiress, to decide how to process the files.” The journalist Gaby Weber, who has operated the process, accuses the widow, the files up to the Public to hold back. It is far from clear that this is inadmissible.
That the Federal constitutional court had decided in 2017, documents of the Chancellery, also belong to the office, if earlier, the Ex-Chancellor or other members of staff they would come to your home or party foundations pass. The government may Central meet here even a replacement duty.
explains The Chancellery, there is an internal investigation. More information will be denied. A piece of information lawsuit filed by the daily mirror, were rejected by the higher administrative court in may 2018, with the note that there is no for the urgent procedure to be sufficient public interest in the missing files.
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Between the Chancellery and Maike Kohl Richter has in the past repeated contacts, which also went to the files topic. Details of who was in the Chancellery responsible for, and what content it was, in the Chancellor’s office allegedly unknown. It had been in the past five years, although contacts with Kohl-Richter, however, “no longer understand”.
