Free voters will have to pay back 700,000 euros

Because the statements were not reports in order to pay back the Free voters money to the Bundestag. 700,000 euros - this is according to the report, more than one-third of the net assets of the party.

The Free voters have to repay government grants in the amount of almost 700,000 Euro in the Bundestag. The have confirmed this to be a speaker of the Bundestag administration, reported the "mirror". Background at issue are practices worthy in the accountability of the party reports.

by trading government bonds in the past years, sales into the millions generated. In the accountability of these had been declared the reports as "income from other assets". As a result, it had been for the party to higher subsidies from the state funding of political parties.

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have been accordingly in January, the Bundestag administration launched an investigation. This revealed that "the questionable accounting practice of the Free voters was not correct," said the speaker of Parliament.

In the sum of almost 700,000 euros is, according to the report, more than a third of the net assets of the party. The Deputy Federal Chairman of the Free voters, Manfred Petry, said the "mirror", the party had joined the legal position of the Bundestag administration and immediately a revised accountability report submitted.

for the fiscal year 2017 submitted the accountability report replaced the party, therefore, by a modified Version. As a result, the claim on government had reduced subsidies for 2018 of approximately 1.14 million Euro to around 0.61 million euros. The state grants that escape the voters Free now, be distributed to the other parties.

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