Overview

• Payment of a €1,450 fine advances Brueckner’s release from January 2026 to September 17, 2025
• The fine, tied to past forgery and bodily harm convictions, was reportedly covered by a former Federal Criminal Police Office employee who later sought to reverse the payment
• Brueckner remains under investigation on suspicion of murder in Madeleine McCann’s 2007 disappearance but has not been formally charged and denies involvement
• He is serving a seven-year sentence for the 2005 rape of a 72-year-old woman in Praia da Luz
• Investigators from the UK, Portugal and Germany conducted searches in Portugal in early June but have yet to secure forensic evidence linking him to the case