Various houses and apartments have been paid for with the spoils from Raids, says the Berlin public Prosecutor’s office. The Suspects belong to a Lebanese family.
“You have to think of this as a very complicated Puzzle,” says Bernhard Mix. He is one of the Berlin state prosecutors, who have brought together in meticulous detail, enough Material to make a spectacular action against members of a Lebanese family trigger. It’s now known, has seized the Prosecutor’s office 77 real estate to the value of 9.3 million euros – the houses and apartments have been purchased with funds that have a criminal origin. “We came through a savings Bank robbery in the year of 2014 on this track,” explained Mix. At that time a branch of the Bank had been robbed and partially blown up. A perpetrator was convicted, but the loot disappeared, remained for a Little more than nine million euros.
The Berlin Investigator Bernhard Mix
But when one of the brothers of the Condemned started to buy condominiums, were the investigators attention. “These members had previously lived only of social services of the state,” says Mix. The state’s attorney and his colleagues pursued then the account, verified the land register entries, the circle of Participants was always larger. Overseas funds were, and from there in and around Berlin, invested in real estate flowed. Mix speaks of “straw people” in Lebanon, which would have bought houses.
The basis for the actions of the authorities, a new law in the criminal law, which took effect a year ago. It makes it easier for the authorities, “assets of unknown origin”. If there is no reasonable doubt that the money comes from a criminal Offence must not be more proven, what specific Crime is the source. It is now, in certain cases, the alleged Criminal to show that you have the money.
10 million euros were stolen in 2014 from this Sparkasse in Berlin-Marie village
Investigations against Clan members for money laundering
The offence, the accused Involved, is money laundering. The Involved could face up to five years in prison. “It will take some time until it is so far,” says Mix. The procedure was very complicated, he says clearly again and again. The investigators wanted to make is no information on the citizenship of 16 people under investigation. But they are all a large family with a Lebanese immigrant backgrounds “and their environment” associated with it.
The family has been brought, according to media reports repeated with some spectacular crimes. In addition to the Sparkasse in Berlin’s Mariendorf district of the robbery of a 100-Kilo gold coin to the value of 3.7 million Euro is part of a Museum. Attorney Mix is not wanted to bring the Museum break-in directly with the property confiscation in connection: “But he, of course, plays in the back of the head.”
Arab family clans in Berlin, a topic that provides plenty of excitement. You are supposed to have large parts of the drug trade in the Hand, the last of which has not been speculated on whether they would also have the Berlin police Academy infiltrated. Clear circles, according to statements from the police, that the structures of up to 500 members of large families are difficult to penetrate and investigations are progressing only very slowly. For conservative circles in the alleged criminal families is the epitome of a failed Integration of society and the rotting of parallel worlds.
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The Beschlagnahmungs action, to 13 locations, searches were carried out, has been prepared from all four departments, which deal with the public Prosecutor in Berlin with organised crime. “This is one of the greatest methods that we have – this scope is usually not so easy,” it is Berlin’s top Prosecutor Jörg Raupach. On further investigative steps the office of the public Prosecutor under wraps – “determination tactical reasons” – in Silence.
The domestic political spokesperson and group leader of the opposition CDU in the Berlin house of representatives, Burkard Dregger, is pleased with the decisive action of the public Prosecutor’s office. However, it should take into account that the recent action against the family clan was only made possible by a new Federal law. “This cancerous growth of organised crime has shown the Berlin government, so far, naive and gullible,” says Dregger.