Possible tax evasion: Apparently new investigations against Winterkorn

The former boss of Volkswagen Winterkorn is apparently confronted with new allegations: According to the information of "Bild am Sonntag", the prosecutor Braunschweig decided against him. The reason is the suspicion of tax evasion.

The Braunschweig prosecutor took a report against the former general manager of VW Martin Winterkorn investigating suspicions of tax offenses. As stated on "Bild am Sonntag", this includes, among other things, transfers of about ten million euros over the past two years to Swiss accounts. The sheet relies on investigation files. According to the investigation records cited by "Bild am Sonntag", Winterkorn would have transferred millions of dollars from one of its accounts to Sparda Bank Nuremberg to a tax account of its tax advisor in 2016 and 2017. From there, money had flowed into the deposits of the bank Vontobel in Zurich – including a deposit, the wife Winterkorns had been badigned.

Investigators suspect that some of the transfers were a gift, for more than

"Is the nest egg safe?

According to Bild am Sonntag, the prosecutor's office notes that Winterkorn has probably transferred badets in Switzerland to become a secure "nest egg". Due to the Winterkorn diesel case threatening VW's damages claims, should be proven duty violations Felix Dörr Winterkorn lawyer dismissed the allegations against the "Bild am Sonntag": It was the decision Winterkorn's very personal how and by whom he managed his badets leaves, "the newspaper quoted the lawyer.The process was" free of any tax complaint. "

Recently, in the diesel scandal, new allegations against Winterkorn have become noisy.According to information from NDR, WDR and "Süddeutsche Zeitung", the company's executive would have been informed in detail of the months of exhaust gas fraud before the scandal broke. is known in 2015. The media rely on the statements that the defendants made to the prosecutor Braunschweig, NDR, WDR and SZ were able to see the files.