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In the affair of the allegedly illegal support of the my AfD there is a surprising escalation. Under the pressure of an impending procedure, the German right-wing party and a Zurich-based pharmaceutical company presented a new Version, such as a payment of 130'000 Euro States has come.
The total sum received by the AfD-kreisverband "lake County" in the summer of 2017 by the Swiss company PWS pharmaceutical wholesale. The money came in 18 tranches, and was declared as a donation to the AfD top candidate Alice ryegrass. Where the money came from is unclear. A wealthy old gentleman from the Zurich mountain have donated the money, claimed the lawyer of the Zurich-based founder and owner of the company PWS. The Swiss company he had interposed, in order to remain anonymous.
Now there is serious evidence that this claim was wrong or at least incomplete: The research cooperation of the German stations NDR and WDR and the süddeutsche Zeitung, the works with this newspaper learned from multiple sources that the AfD have received from the Swiss company, PWS a list with the names of a total of 14 individuals. These 14 people donated the 130'000 euros for Weidels election campaign.
donors from Germany, Spain and Belgium
The list with the donor's name was on the 27. November 2018, of the PWS Pharma-whole sale to the AfD sent. The German party initiated the preparation to the administration of the German Bundestag. There it is investigated, where the AfD got the money, and whether through the donations of German laws were broken. The existence of the list was confirmed to WDR, NDR and SZ from several sources: the names of The donors would all sound German. Ten have their residence in Germany, three in Spain and one Person lives in Belgium.
The Board of Directors of the PWS pharmaceutical whole sale, courtship Jegge, confirmed to this newspaper that a list of names was sent to the AfD. Also that there were 14 donors, will probably "vote". The names of the donors don't want to call Jegge.
Why the lawyer of the company's owner spoke of only a donor, can't explain Jegge. The Board suggested that perhaps "the have passed 14 of them, only the donation of a single person." As this newspaper confronted him with the contradiction of promises to the lawyer, the owner of the PWS. He reports, however.
financing remains illegal
In an Interview with the research cooperation of the German lawyer and expert on party financing, Sophie says schönenberger, that the history of the 14 German donors is quite inconclusive and implausible: "Because there is absolutely no reason to direct money on the Switzerland, if it comes out of the assets of German and EU citizens." Since these donations were summarized in Switzerland and a Swiss company, at the AfD redirected, change the nothing to the question of illegal party funding.
donations over 1000 Euro from Non-EU countries are prohibited in Germany. A party donation from the Inland about 130'000 euros should have been reported in Germany, the Bundestag administration. The AfD waited but a few months back and transferred then to 124'000 euros, in several tranches, to the Swiss company PWS. From there, it will be returned on the donor. Rye said, that you know neither the donor nor his motives.
Nevertheless, the Prosecutor's office of Konstanz, is investigating the case on suspicion of illegal party financing. Sent on 11. January a request for legal assistance to the Prosecutor's office of Zurich. The Zurich check now. Help you will make the German colleagues only if, the offence in the request is also considered an offence in Switzerland. A party donation from abroad would not be.
In the case of the Swiss donor company PWS Pharma whole sale is another step on is still strange: The first media reports about a donation to the AfD appeared in the middle of November 2018. Shortly thereafter, in early December, has withdrawn from the company to the limited Revision. You can no longer, therefore, external auditors about their books. The temporal proximity of the donations affair was "pure coincidence", says the Board of Directors Jegge: "We are much too small for a Revision. We would much sooner be without it." (Tages-Anzeiger)
Created: 17.01.2019, 20:10 PM
