Overview
- Searches earlier this week targeted 29 locations, including nine in Berlin, in a coordinated operation by multiple state police forces and customs.
- Investigators executed two arrest warrants and detained suspects aged 40 to 73, with the main suspect now in pretrial custody.
- The probe focuses on suspected aiding of insolvency concealment and aiding bankruptcy offenses in especially serious cases.
- Authorities seized electronic data carriers and business records that will be forensically examined to trace financial flows and roles.
- Several notaries who certified share transfers are being investigated on suspicion of complicity, bribery and overcharging, and inquiries remain active.