The investigations go back to the evaluations of the “Panama Papers”, the Background is the suspicion of tax evasion is: nationwide, officials, banks, accounting firms, and asset managers browse.
As the Prosecutor’s office in Frankfurt am Main announced that the action in connection with a two-day RAID on a major German Bank in the end of November. At that time, the law enforcement authorities had the main seat of the Deutsche Bank searches. The background is the suspicion of tax evasion against a number of high net worth individuals.
Eight people suspected of
A total of eight apartments, eleven banks and savings banks, the offices of four accountants and six asset managers by addiction. What the money houses are not informed the Prosecutor’s office. Affected the business premises of a total of eleven institutes in Aachen, Bonn, Düsseldorf, Erding, Frankfurt, Cologne, and Trier. Living persons in Bad Tölz, Germany, Erkrath, Hamburg, Conc, Simmerath, and on the island of Sylt were searched rooms of private. Also involved officials of the Federal criminal police office (BKA), the land criminal police office of Hamburg, the upper Finance Directorate in Frankfurt, and various financial offices.
In the crosshairs of investigators to eight people, each of them with the help of a former subsidiary of the Deutsche Bank in the British virgin Islands shell companies in tax havens created to hide capital income in the German tax authorities seem to be. Deutsche Bank said that the current investigation against Deutsche Bank, but against private individuals. “Deutsche Bank is cooperating with the Prosecutor’s office and publishes all requested documents voluntarily.” Currently no search had taken place.
Findings from “the Panama Papers,”
During the searches in the Institute last November, the investigators had documentation in accordance to their own information, numerous business, both in written and electronic Form to ensure. They went back to the suspicion that employees of the German Bank had helped clients to establish shell companies in tax havens.
The trigger for the original RAID on the Deutsche Bank findings from the so-called “Offshore Leaks” and “Panama Papers”. In the spring of 2016, an international media network was revealed with the “Panama Papers” financial flows in the Central American tax haven. Thus, politicians, business people and celebrities worldwide were under pressure. The international media played a mountain of data showed large flows of money to Panama, where thousands of letter-box companies are located.
Whether it is illegal transactions, worldwide had tested prosecutors. The BKA bought the “Panama Papers” in the summer of 2017 and, subsequently, evaluated.
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