Overview

• Police and prosecutors searched three private apartments and a service room at the LEA’s Referat E6 on June 19 as part of the corruption probe.
• Investigators are examining allegations that staff accepted payments of about €50 per appointment through commercial brokers using automated tools.
• Authorities suspect a 38-year-old LEA employee of forging citizenship certificates and unlawfully naturalizing a North Macedonian family on April 15.
• Mid-July searches in Marzahn-Hellersdorf and Neukölln targeted three men accused of organizing false naturalizations with forged documents.
• Mayor Kai Wegner says digital appointment records have tightened audit trails for tracing bribery or naturalization fraud.