GERMAN RAIDS ON FINANCE AND JUSTICE MINISTRIES MAY PAVE WAY FOR CRIMINAL CHARGES AT CRITICISED FIU
September 2nd, 2021
THE PROSECUTORS unit behind last Thursday’s (September 9) raids on Germany’s finance and justice ministries has underlined how it is prepared to file criminal charges against senior officials in these departments as well as within the country’s FIU.
A statement released by the Staatsanwaltschaft Osnabrück (Osnabrück public prosecutors’ office), which has been ordered to probe the FIU, said its inquiries since 2020 has shown how the unit had repeatedly failed to pass on suspicious transaction on to the police and the judiciary. These involved ...
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