Private Sector

Corruption case around former HMG boss is illuminated. The 68-year-old manager of a Vaihinger beverage manufacturer is accused by the public prosecutor of having given the former HMG managing director a total of 23 VIP tickets for six home games of the VfB Stuttgart worth € 5750 between 2010 and 2012.

The fraud case around Unister founder Wagner is still not clear - but now the first accusation has been raised. In Leipzig the financial intermediary Wilfried Schwätter is in court, which has threaded the alleged credit. Schwätter is accused of assistance to fraud.

Volkswagen is taking another important hurdle to tackle the emission scandal. The Group has agreed with US private plaintiffs on a fundamental agreement on a "substantial compensation".

Volkswagen has agreed to a compromise with the American authorities in the exhaust scandal. The Group plans to repurchase a portion of the 80,000 3.0-liter diesel cars affected.

Volkswagen pays 1.5 billion euros for comparison in Canada. Next step in the processing of the diesel fuel scandal: The VW Group pays up to 1.5 billion euros to Canadian car manufacturers. A further comparison in the US is still pending.

Reinhold Geilsdörfer, the managing director of the Dieter Schwarz Foundation, has discovered new details. Geilsdörfer was apparently already in the service of the Schwarz-Stiftung from the autumn of 2015, at a time when he was still acting president of the Baden-Württemberg University of Cooperative Education (DHBW). He is said to have worked as a manager with a half-salary of 12.500 € per month.

18 months imprisonment on probation, the regional court Saarbrücken in the second corruption process around the Landesamt for Central Services (LZD) against the head of a Saarbrücken electrical company. He must also pay 15,000 euros to the state fund.

Corruption: A Chinese supplier is a telecom employee. This has sold business secrets to the Chinese supplier ZTE. Now the public prosecutor's office in the case - the suspects are gone for a long time.

At the Oktoberfest, his fiancee has stabbed a man with a knife - the Hamburg millionaire has been trying to influence witnesses: with 200,000 euros. He was arrested.

At the Oktoberfest, his fiancee has stabbed a man with a knife - the Hamburg millionaire has been trying to influence witnesses: with 200,000 euros. He was arrested.