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Deutsche Bank raid on cum-ex stock deals

Search at Deutsche Bank in the tax scandal surrounding cum-ex share deals: public prosecutors, police and tax investigators searched on Tuesday at the headquarters of Germany's largest financial institution in Frankfurt am Main for evidence of the transactions at the expense of the state treasury.

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Deutsche Bank raid on cum-ex stock deals

Search at Deutsche Bank in the tax scandal surrounding cum-ex share deals: public prosecutors, police and tax investigators searched on Tuesday at the headquarters of Germany's largest financial institution in Frankfurt am Main for evidence of the transactions at the expense of the state treasury.

"We confirm that the Cologne public prosecutor's office is currently carrying out official measures at our Frankfurt location as part of the investigations against the bank in the matter of cum-ex that have been ongoing since 2017," said a spokesman for the bank. The “Handelsblatt” had previously reported. "As has been the case since the investigations began in 2017, the bank continues to cooperate fully with the investigating authority," said the spokesman.

The lead public prosecutor's office in Cologne confirmed without naming names that "search warrants against a bank in Frankfurt and other group companies as well as against an auditing company" would be carried out. In addition, the private homes of ten suspects would be searched.

“The measures are related to cum-ex transactions that are the subject of the proceedings and related tax evasion models. The measure serves in particular to find relevant communication in the form of e-mails and other written correspondence," said the investigating authority.

In cum-ex transactions, several participants pushed blocks of shares with ("cum") and without ("ex") dividend rights back and forth around the dividend record date. As a result, tax offices reimbursed capital gains taxes that had not been paid at all. The state suffered billions in damage. Several public prosecutors have been investigating the complex for years. The first criminal trials ended with convictions.

According to the Cologne public prosecutor's office, a total of 114 investigators from several police departments in North Rhine-Westphalia, tax investigators from North Rhine-Westphalia, Hesse and Bavaria as well as the Federal Central Tax Office and IT experts were involved in the current search.

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