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- SummaryThis material contains the topic "PDS raid". Police in Berlin searched the premises of the PDS headquarters on suspicion of illegal money transfers. In the first part, recordings from a press conference with Justice Senator Jutta Limbach will be shown, who will comment on this topic. Furthermore, various statements by Renate Künast and the public prosecutors will be shown. The last part includes an interview with prosecutor Bräutigam and justice senator Limbach. Afterwards, outdoor shots of the PDS headquarters are shown and Hanno Harnisch - press spokesman for the PDS - comments on the search.
- ShotlistC1/1531 A: waving service flag of the state of Berlin; puller on the town hall Schöneberg (sideways) with green area in the VG; zoom on flag on town hall tower, puller on town hall Schöneberg sideways (2x); figures on town hall tower, puller on town hall (sideways); zoom on figures on town hall tower; various flags in front of the town hall building; winch on Schöneberg town hall (sideways); zoom on flags; Rathaus Schöneberg, inside; people take a seat (e.g. Mrs. Bräutigam); Jutta Limbach enters the hall; Jutta Limbach in conversation with Renate Künast; table of the AL parliamentary group (Alternative List) with Renate Künast; table of the SPD parliamentary group (Social Democratic Party of Germany); various recordings of participants of the press conference; cameraman; table of the CDU parliamentary group (Christilich Demokratische Union Deutschlands); panning on table of the SPD parliamentary group; Künast in conversation; Press spokesman OT on the agenda and motions; Künast OH; table of the AL Group T; swing over conference room; Journalists and cameramen; empty table with sign "REP-Fraction"; file GA; table SPD-Fraction, vote; various pictures of the participants; Statement Limbach (NiB); Journalists; Hands GA put glasses on table; Hands GA get papers from envelope; Speaker's table T; Man OH; Mann OT (SPD faction): "...I would be interested to know how much money has actually been spent so far/ is it even possible at all to check the number of these house transactions, which has risen so sharply, to what extent they are serious transactions in detail and to what extent they are fictitious transactions for illegal personal enrichment/ politically interesting question is 'How could it happen that many clever people discovered this scam, but did not recognize those who negotiated this regulation'/ Why was this recognized so late?/ Why didn't the government of Maizière take care of this question?/ Why was it possible that an abuse could be carried out for so long without the political stop..."; Mann OH and Limbach OH; swivel on the table of the SPD faction; public prosecutors move forward and take their seats; various requests to speak; Limbach OT: "...I had heard 257 million already confiscated and a damage amount of 350 to 500 million was mentioned in a first meeting / it may well be that other possible sums were mentioned in this meeting / the Attorney General and Mrs. Bräutigam had announced themselves to me to report on this fraud scandal / not only with the intention, to keep the Senator of Justice up to date, but to make it clear that they are currently involved in a number of highly complicated proceedings, that I absolutely have to think about which personnel is needed/correspondingly there has also been the presentation with which I do not want to relativize what has been said to me, but only make it clear that things are said in such a discussion, which you don't easily give out to the public/ had asked in the context of this discussion, it wouldn't make sense to go to the press immediately, so to speak from a preventive point of view, in order to avoid that this will continue to do school/ and the public prosecutors then said to me 'For God's sake, no, The 'current time of things is not recommended at all' and we parted ways with that/ on Tuesday I got a note from the public prosecutor's office that they had been prompted to make a press statement because the magazine 'Der Stern' had hurried ahead and the exaggerated ideas of the star were to be countered with the actual figures and the correct scope of the investigations/ gives corresponding press statement, which was communicated to all..../ it didn't take an hour until the Abendschau asked me for an interview..."; Limbach OT on the question of how it came to this: "The unification treaty provides that the foreign trade treaties concluded by the GDR before the date of monetary union may continue to be implemented until the end of this year/there is a certain clearing system which can lead to a seven mark mark being made out of one mark, whereby it is of course important that the hard DM has taken the place of the Ostmark/ if I have understood my colleagues from the public prosecutor's office correctly, were the transactions made possible by the fact that it was not quite certain - or recognizable to those affected - that it had to be GDR goods that were delivered there, while in many cases the delivery of the goods was at all in question or it came from Singapore or similar places/that is the situation where one badly asks the Berlin administration of justice how one could have prevented this? It was more at the level of the federal economy, the Federal Ministry of Finance and the Bundesbank, which immediately thought about what measures could be taken to rule this out in the future."; Limbach OT on the question of how these different messages came about: "It is quite possible that the public prosecutor's office has said that it can go into the billions/ the public prosecutor's office therefore explains that they say that they have said that the current assets of the bank amount to DM 2 billion/ I cannot remember exactly in detail/ may well have been the case/ in general we do not like to give information in ongoing investigations, if I do this in investigations by the public prosecutor's office, I always take care of my colleagues beforehand, I have kept to this framework/ how it came to this exaggerated portrayal in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, I cannot reconstruct in detail/ have probably come together a lot/ have already been able to observe how it works in the style of the silent post....has given talks/ Journalist of the Süddeutsche Zeitung has not only spoken with the secretary of state, but also with other people ....it is no longer possible to reconstruct it..." C1/1531 B: Continuation of the press conference; Heinze OT: "...further proceedings in which there is the suspicion that similar investigations have been carried out and in this context it has been mentioned that in already four proceedings the amount of damages has already reached 500 million/that then further proceedings- has been a pattern in which one cannot be sure, that many others have also applied it - that then orders of magnitude can also be reached in the billions / the Bundesbank also had these fears without being able to prove concretely that it is 3, 4, 2, a billion amount / think that one can only say that there are more than 500 million if the suspicion in the other proceedings is also confirmed."; Pull on space; Limbach OH; Sectional view of Jutta Limbach in press conference; Limbach OT on the connection with the PDS: "...as things had been described to me until Tuesday, I did not see any clue for connections/ have nothing against either Dr. Erbe, who is the investigator in these proceedings, or his boss, Mrs. Bräutigam, being able to provide information on this insofar as they consider this to be justifiable at the current state of the investigation proceedings."; Mrs. Bräutigam OT (from behind): "...Last week a possible confusion of PDS with the transfer rubbish was not known, that this element could be completely eliminated/ PDS has come into play so far only by the investigations, which are scheduled for Thursday and then led to the search action/ would like to say finally, that the cases Transferrubel on the one hand and these PDS transactions on the other hand have nothing to do with each other after the investigations so far / please understand that more cannot be said about it at the moment / bear in mind that in both cases we are only at the beginning of the investigations and take into account further, which abundance of investigations still have to be led in this connection."; Künast OH; Künast poses question on legal basis/ West Berlin police officers; Künast OH with press release; Künast reads extract from press release; Künast OT on PDS; Künast OT on paragraph §105 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (StPO); criticism from Künast; Limbach OT on the question of whether it was a political action: "...the Senator of the Interior was not informed of this search of the PDS headquarters until about 10 p.m. to 2 p.m., I was not informed until the following morning/ may I add that an official from the field of white-collar crime was entrusted with the matter by the public prosecutor's office at the Berlin Regional Court..."; Limbach OT on the Schalck-Golodkowski case / Comparison; Limbach OT on the question of the rule-exception ratio: "First of all, the premise is completely clear that the regular offence is that a judicial search warrant is to be sought and that a public prosecutor or even the criminal investigation department itself may only carry out this search without this judicial search warrant if danger is in delay/all of us are basically in agreement, that we cannot answer now on the basis of our present knowledge- our knowledge of Mr. Gysi's willingness to release these files from the safe as well- but that we must basically put ourselves in a position, when the police and the public prosecutor met with the Treuhand official, to consider whether it might not be necessary to intervene on the spot/ here it has been/ now report a fact, who has been reported repeatedly/ by Interpol and the Federal Criminal Police Office on strange account transactions/ that PDS millions have landed on accounts in Utrecht and Oslo and that a PDS member is, so to speak, standing on the mat in front of these banks demanding cash payments/ that criminal police have investigated the commercial bank and have indeed been made aware of this, that these amounts have been investigated there / officials have then further considered how to obtain evidence of what is involved with these account movements in favour of Putnik / have then come to the conclusion in a joint crisis meeting that they should take action on the spot and without a judicial search warrant / have conducted these investigations in the commercial bank they and. a. negotiated with a managing director who has been with the bank for 17 years and said to themselves that someone who has been with the bank for 17 years probably also had relations with the SED and with staff from the successor organisation/ feared that embassies to the PDS had been passed on from there/ was observed/ was found out that people were indeed present in these rooms/ due to a report from the observers there one was then prompted to do something on the spot.../ must also come to the conclusion that the officials did not act arbitrarily and that it cannot be said that it was objectively not justifiable from any point of view that they, without calling on a judge, set off and carried out the investigations there..."; Limbach OT on the question of whether it is checked what has been done with the robbed funds: "...public prosecutor only takes action if there is at least an initial suspicion, if there are indications that such property transfers take place/ apparently there are no such indications so far/ it is not up to the public prosecutor's office to carry out account checks of its own accord"; Künast OT: "...some people were probably too comfortable/ no matter who was searched/ doesn't work like that, you can't stand around for two hours and not get the idea to reach for the radio or whatever you want to ring a judge out of bed in this country/ if there's no on-call duty there's something wrong."; Pull up on space, Pagel to the side; Man OH (?); statement man; Jutta Limbach OH; Limbach nah; speaker's table; Limbach OT: "Of course it is clear that on the occasion of this case - as much as we think that the officials here acted within their discretion - we also thought about what was generally addressed here..."; Limbach OT to Mr. Pagel: "Mr. Pagel, speculations in a magazine cannot be a reason for the public prosecutor's office to investigate by the public prosecutor's office / must then already exist concrete things, as they have been indicated here by Interpol and the Federal Criminal Police Office ..."; Limbach asks Prosecutor General Heinze to answer Mrs Künast's question (no need to call in a judge during the waiting period): Heinze OT: "...I am firmly convinced that the condition of 'danger in delay' was present when the decision was made / was judge for years and I can tell you Mrs. Künast, I as judge would not have decided differently than the prosecutor on the spot has decided / was a situation, it was examined in the afternoon in the commercial bank, one woke up sleeping dogs with it so to speak / one knew, that large sums of money have flowed away without the permission of the trustee/ is sufficient suspicion to request a search of the judge/ to the second question/ the police came to the conclusion at about 9 p.m. that a search was expedient/ then turned to the public prosecutor's office/ the public prosecutor also needed some time to consider whether it makes sense to investigate there..."; Heinze OT on the search: "...if Mr. Gysi had been there, the whole action would have been over in half an hour..." C1/1531 C: Continuation of the press conference; Heinze OT on the search without a judicial search warrant: "...may be sure, every prosecutor searches with a judicial order rather than without, because then he can hide behind the judicial independence, if something went wrong."; Interview with Mrs. Bräutigam (public prosecutor); Bridegroom OT to the judicial search warrant / danger in default: "The question can only be explained from the peculiarity of this case / they must know that the investigations in the afternoon of the day in question have brought well-founded indications that financial transactions amounting to millions were planned here in the form that the withdrawal of these amounts in cash was about to take place / one had here the indication that concrete attempts were being made to remove considerable amounts of money / had become known further, that it may be possible for those involved in the crime to be warned by indiscretions on the part of possibly bank employees who had been informed of the investigation/ the situation, on the other hand, could have expanded to the point that important documents - evidence - could have been removed in the meantime/ are starting points which would then arise for a public prosecutor/ is faced with the situation of a possible loss of evidence.../ then I ask her, what should the prosecutor do then?/ he has no choice but to immediately take action, to intervene to prevent that.../ was an exceptional case which really required haste!"; Ms Bräutigam OT on the accusations of the PDS that police had searched offices of Gysi and Modrow/ Pätzold denies this: "Do I give them no other information/ these rooms have not been searched/ must I convince myself as a public prosecutor whether the room in question is actually also the room of a member of parliament or possibly something completely different?/ I really may open the door and convince myself that this is really a room of a Member of Parliament?/ spongy the border of control of this fact and the beginning of a search action / so far a control has taken place here, but no search..."; Mrs. Bräutigam OT on the search of Kaufmann's apartment in Halle by Berlin detectives: "There is a joint state criminal investigation office, which is now more responsible for all five countries of the accession area/ joint criminal investigation office was in charge/ Berlin detectives can also be involved/ the responsible authority was in charge of it"; Mrs. Bräutigam OT on the process / feeling of satisfaction: "I don't want to use the word "satisfied" in this context / we evaluate facts / I can't confirm feeling of satisfaction"; Bridegroom OT about Kaufmann's disappearance/stay: "I don't want to give any information about that..."; Interview with Mrs. Limbach; Limbach OT to the political dimension: "The whole thing has no political dimension/ if I draw your attention to the fact that the Senator of the Interior and the City Council for the Interior of the eastern part of the city were not well informed until 10 p.m. / I was not informed until 10 p.m. / the official of the public prosecutor's office who worked there comes from the department of white-collar crime / has taken action because of the bank account movements / is correct that it was the headquarters of the PDS / must intervene independently of the person of the accused in such situations, if danger appears to us in default."; Transparent on house wall with lettering "PDS Party Board" (Kleine Alexanderstraße); puller on building / PDS headquarters T; various outdoor shots of the PDS headquarters; sidewalk with PDS parasol and PDS election posters; GA window with PDS flag; Interview with Hanno Harnisch; Harnisch OT on the submission of an official complaint: "Because the legality of this action is questioned for our terms/ is still a political scandal/ gives no legal basis for this large police action, neither after - at the time of this alleged money transfer - valid GDR law nor after FRG law/ danger in arrears was in no case given/ bank transfers were made, receipts were present, where should there be danger in arrears/ also accusation of infidelity is according to the criminal law of the GDR from 09. to 17. September 2009. The PDS did not exist in July 1960 through the Criminal Law Amendment Act/ unless one says the PDS committed infidelity to itself, but "no legislator in the world knows this construction", Section of the Law Gazette of the German Democratic Republic GA (09 July 1990)
- TagsService flag (Land Berlin); City Hall Schöneberg; Buildings (Berlin); Berlin House of Representatives; City Hall (Berlin); Cultural Monument (Berlin); Politics (Berlin); Day; Alternative List (AL); AL Group; Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD); Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU); Public Prosecutor; Press Conference (PK); Attorney General; Senator (Justice); Money Laundering; Party Assets; Investigation; Search; Scandal; Fraud; Amount of damage; Amount of damage; Investigation; Investigation; Transfer proceedings; Transfer; Economic crime; Criticism; Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS); PDS headquarters; Party finance scandal; Putnik deal; Assets transfer; Lawyer; Party spokesman (PDS); PDS regional headquarters; Administrative supervision complaint; Journal of Laws (GDR); German Democratic Republic (GDR); Senator of Justice;
- Decade1990
- Production Year1990
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- Actors
- PersonalitiesHanno Harnisch, Jutta Limbach, Bräutigam, Astrid Heinze, Pagel, Heinze
- Director
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- CameraW. Kühne
- Original Clip IdentifierQ6UJ9A00AIS3
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