Overview

• The Mühlhausen public prosecutor's office announced it would not pursue investigations into the legality of the large donation to the AfD.
• The €999,990 donation, made by a former Thüringer Böttcher AG supervisory board member, fell just below the threshold for automatic Bundestag reporting.
• Prosecutors cited insufficient evidence of criminal behavior or deliberate concealment of the donation's origin by Udo Böttcher or Thüringer Böttcher AG.
• Udo Böttcher claimed to have gifted €2 million to Horst Jan Winter, who subsequently donated part of it to the AfD, but later revoked the portion donated to the party citing 'gross ingratitude.'
• Böttcher has faced personal repercussions, including threats, following public scrutiny of the donation controversy.