German Bank Process – The witness who got 200 million euros – Süddeutsche.de

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Dieter Hahn, confidant of Leo Kirch, admits reluctantly in court that he in the dispute with the money home earned splendidly.

At this point, on the witness stand, has in previous proceedings Leo Kirch sat. Only a few meters away from his adversary Rolf Breuer, the former head of Deutsche Bank. The him, parish, is said to have driven into bankruptcy. However, the media magnate who died four years ago, he did not live to see the ramifications of his dispute with the financial institution. Now sit there Dieter Hahn, a former deputy chief of the Kirch group, he also just a few steps next to Breuer.

Also, he who once closest confidant of Kirch, there Breuer and the bank blamed the collapse of the film – and television empire. But as much as Hahn strives to let the German bank in a bad light, his statement is overlaid by a single number, which must call the witness after some back and forth: almost 200 million euros. So much has the Kirch confidante earned in the dispute with the German bank.

Breuer and Hahn, these are the two main characters on Tuesday, as the Landgericht München I continues the German bank process. Only contradicts the defendant Breuer on charges that he had wanted with the remarks in his TV interview on 3 February 2002, more media magnates under pressure on the critical situation in the church. He had, asserted Breuer, had “no hidden agenda”. “I would never have thought to harm through an interview one of the bank customers.”

Breuer, together with his successors Josef Ackermann and Jürgen Fitschen, one of the two current heads of the Bank, as well as two ex -Vorstandsmitgliedern the Bank charged. They should have tried to bring claims for damages with false information to the Higher Regional Court (OLG) Munich to credit customers Kirch. This is attempted process fraud have been what the defendants reject

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Then tap is off and reported wordy how Breuer and the German bank would have harmed the TV interview of the Kirch group. That was the “watershed”. Thereafter, the position of the financially troubled media group was rapidly spiraling out of control. With the information joy of longtime Kirch confidant however, it is over when he should report how strong he had personally benefited from the compensation payment by the Bank to the heirs and creditors of the late media magnate. The church family is against him was “very generous”, says Hahn, and would like to keep it that way.

But the defenders of the bankers want to know it exactly. The presiding judge Peter Noll follows. For the assessment of the “credibility of the witness” that was important. Hahn could indeed be the case of a very high proportion of the payment of the Deutsche Bank, “close to a party role,” says Noll. In the judiciary, it makes a big difference whether someone as a witness. Or as a party.

925 million euros, the German bank has paid in February 2014, after more than ten years, armed only with church and then with his heirs and creditors. After deduction of costs, the creditors and the Kirch side should have done in about fifty-fifty. And from what the family church and their environment conceded, again accounted for just under half cock. The time was a large number in the media industry and remained after Kirch’s bankruptcy on its side, took care of the remaining business and fought together with the failed magnates against the German bank. Hahn had always stood firmly to Kirch. The loyalty and his family have always rewarded.

“I am instructed to crush the Chancellor, your business.”

Hahn told the court what Kirch Breuer few days after its TV interview got heard. “I am instructed to smash from the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany your business.” The Breuer had said at a meeting at Munich Airport to Kirch. Kirch himself has never mentioned, even Gerhard Schröder had not been in a affidavit on the airport meeting.

Registrar. The SPD politician had met, both opponents of Kirch on television in early 2002 with Breuer and the heads of the media group Bertelsmann (Thomas Middelhoff) and the media group WAZ ( West German Allgemeine Zeitung ). Topic of conversation Chancellor was also the position in church. The felt this procedure – Chancellor meeting, Breuer’s TV interview, airport Date – later as a kind of plan it, Kirch, to put them under pressure, so that the German bank smash the Kirch group and could earn it. But Judge Noll registered the alleged chancellor job with a certain skepticism. This was “big coin,” says Noll.