{"id":225,"date":"2012-12-20T12:20:48","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T12:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/?p=141"},"modified":"2012-12-20T12:20:48","modified_gmt":"2012-12-20T12:20:48","slug":"bro-karlheinze-schreiber-trial-begins-in-augsburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/20\/bro-karlheinze-schreiber-trial-begins-in-augsburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Bro. Karlheinze Schreiber Trial Begins in Augsburg"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t<!-- Post Body Copy -->\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-bodycopy clearfix\">\n<p>Guardian.Co.Uk<\/p>\n<p><strong>German fraud trial may throw light on slush fund affair <\/p>\n<p>Arms dealer and lobbyist Karlheinz Schreiber, 75, denies bribery and tax evasion<\/p>\n<p>Monday 18 January 2010<br \/>\nKate Connolly in Berlin<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 250px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A Pillar of Mutual Support...\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freemasonrywatch.org\/pics\/brother.mulroney.jpg\" title=\"Brian Mulroney Photograph with KarlHeinz Schreiber Dedication\" width=\"240\" height=\"349\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#39;A Pillar of Mutual Support&#8230;&#39;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nAn elderly arms dealer and lobbyist accused of playing a major role in a slush fund affair that plunged Germany&#8217;s Christian Democrats into chaos in the 1990s and set the chancellor, Angela Merkel, on the road to power, went on trial today for alleged fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Karlheinz Schreiber, 75, who has joint Canadian and German citizenship, pleaded not guilty to charges of bribery, tax evasion and being an accessory to fraud, in a trial that is being watched closely by political and business communities, not least because of revelations he might make over who knew what about the funding scandal.<\/p>\n<p>His friends and contacts with whom he famously shared a table at Munich&#8217;s Oktoberfest, included intelligence agents, state secretaries and arms manufacturers.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutor Marcus Paintinger told the court in Augsburg, southern Germany, that Schreiber had withheld \u20ac13.3m in taxes from the \u20ac32m commission he received from sales of Airbus aeroplanes to Thailand, helicopters to the Canadian coastguard, and a tank deal with the Canadian military, which flopped.<\/p>\n<p>Schreiber had &#8220;built up an obscure house of lies&#8221;, Paintinger said, setting up fictitious firms in Liechtenstein and Panama in order to deceive the tax authorities. As he entered the courtroom, Schreiber told reporters: &#8220;Today we are where my case belongs&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2010\/jan\/18\/german-fraud-trial-slush-fund\">Article Continues<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 100px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Signs and Symbols of Freemasonry\" src=\"http:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/pics\/mathers.hands.jpg\" title=\"Mathers\" width=\"90\" height=\"131\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Signs and Symbols<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Further Reading<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freemasonrywatch.org\/schreiber.html\">The Man Called &#8216;The Licio Gelli of Germany&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_counters\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-small.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:2px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_c=new Array(\"twitter\",\"facebook_like\",\"facebook_send\",\"pinterest\");var hupso_counters_lang = \"en_US\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_c=\"\";var hupso_title_c=\"Bro.%20Karlheinze%20Schreiber%20Trial%20Begins%20in%20Augsburg\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/counters.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian.Co.Uk German fraud trial may throw light on slush fund affair Arms dealer and lobbyist Karlheinz Schreiber, 75, denies bribery and tax evasion Monday 18 January 2010 Kate Connolly in Berlin &#39;A Pillar of Mutual Support&#8230;&#39; An elderly arms dealer and lobbyist accused of playing a major role in a<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_counters\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-small.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:2px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_c=new Array(\"twitter\",\"facebook_like\",\"facebook_send\",\"pinterest\");var hupso_counters_lang = \"en_US\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_c=\"\";var hupso_title_c=\"Bro.%20Karlheinze%20Schreiber%20Trial%20Begins%20in%20Augsburg\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/counters.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,91,23,48,7,94,95,39,87,54,88,96,25,26],"tags":[90,92,93],"class_list":["post-225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-70","category-brian-mulroney","category-canada","category-freemasonry","category-freemasons","category-helmut-kohl","category-karl-heinz-schreiber","category-masonic-gestures","category-masonic-symbols","category-military","category-n-a-t-o","category-p2","category-stephen-harper","category-tories","tag-airbus","tag-cdu","tag-germany",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}