= “articlemeta-left”> Updated 15th May 2015 15:08 clock

Frankfurt / Main (dpa) – key to rebuilding threatened Lufthansa trouble with the joint venture Sun Express. After “mirror” information intended for the charter airline, Lufthansa operates jointly with Turkish Airlines, have been conducted for years a slush fund.

Sun Express is part of the new low-cost platform Euro Wings autumn for Lufthansa Long-haul flights to take.

A Lufthansa spokesman said last year Notes to the accounting for Sun Express in Turkey had become known. Thereupon, Lufthansa and Turkish Airlines have carried out a joint audit. Sun Express filed a voluntary disclosure and therefore taxed income for three of a total of almost twelve years.

According to the report, the slush fund to have been performed on more than ten years and released in late 2012. She was fed according to findings from an internal investigation, among other things from the sale of employee tickets, as the “Spiegel” reported previously. It was used accordingly for example to pay for visa fees.

Sun Express was founded in October 1989 as a joint venture of Turkish Airlines and Lufthansa. Today, the airline transported claims to more than 7 million passengers a year.