Illicit Political Contribution

British politicians accuse Theresa May of turning a "blind eye to President Putin's kleptocrats". A parliamentary committee has accused the government of empty rhetoric after the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal.

The Mayor of Regensburg is under pressure. This is due to an expansion of the donation funds, which already involved an investigation. The focus is also on his predecessors. Even after his election to the mayor of Regensburg, Joachim Wolbergs (SPD) apparently accepted further donations from construction companies to a not insignificant extent.

The Mayor of Regensburg is under pressure. This is due to an expansion of the donation funds, which already involved an investigation. The focus is also on his predecessors. Even after his election to the mayor of Regensburg, Joachim Wolbergs (SPD) apparently accepted further donations from construction companies to a not insignificant extent.

The Mayor of Regensburg is under pressure. This is due to an expansion of the donation funds, which already involved an investigation. The focus is also on his predecessors. Even after his election to the mayor of Regensburg, Joachim Wolbergs (SPD) apparently accepted further donations from construction companies to a not insignificant extent.

The Chancellor helped the CDU in collecting donations: in the run-up to the regional elections of Baden-Wurttemberg and Berlin Merkel met with economic representatives to discreet fundraising dinners. The participants were not disclosed. Of course, "financial support for our party in the form of a donation" was also promoted. However, the "commitment of a donation was not a prerequisite for participation".

"Cum-Ex" affair: In the affair about monkey tax business of the banks, the Ministry of Finance is in need of explanation. There one should have relied for years on the advice of a man who took his salary from the money-houses.

Lithuanian Court of Appeals ruled that the former MP Vitas Matuzas and lobbyist Andrius Romanovskis were cleared of all charges. Both had been accused for using a charity fund for receiving financial contributions from business in return to favourable decision-making in the Parliament.

The donation scandal of the CDU in Rhineland-Palatinate is getting bigger: Secret agent Werner Mauss now donated 125,000 euros.

The Kansanshi mine , owned by Kansanshi Mining PLC and ZCCM, is still waiting to receive millions of US dollars in Value Added Tax (VAT) refunds from the Zambian Revenue Agency. Despite claims that a payment of around ZMK 857,005,562 (USD $85,700,556) was made to the mining company, Kansanshi Mining argued that no VAT refunds were received in 2014. This information was revealed by analysing seven Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) reports published from 2008-2014, which hold information on over forty companies making payment disclosures each year.

First debate in the state parliament about the new donation scandal in the CDU: It is about the illegal donations of secret agent Werner Mauss. He has sent 82,000 euros to the Rhineland-Palatinate CDU through a law firm.