Overview

• Searches by the Thuringian State Criminal Police Office and internal investigators under Erfurt court warrants focused on four board members suspected of breach of trust and fraud.
• Investigators suspect the union may have misused assets built up through membership fees instead of deploying them for member benefit.
• The GdP leadership convened a special meeting and asserted that all member contributions were used appropriately, a position supported by internal auditors and external control bodies.
• This marked the second intervention in three months after an initial March search over alleged secret disclosures, raising questions about recurring police intrusions.
• The Left’s Ronald Hande has scheduled an Interior Committee debate on whether the raids intrude on union rights, and the AfD’s interior spokesman accused Interior Minister Georg Maier of failing to check the investigations.