Judgments - Clan real estate - court rejects confiscations
The public prosecutor's office has suffered a defeat in the legal dispute over apartments and houses belonging to a clan of Arab origin in Berlin. On Tuesday, the Berlin district court rejected the confiscation of several properties and other assets belonging to a 27-year-old man because there was insufficient evidence, as the court announced on Wednesday.
It was "not possible to prove that the properties had been financed with money from criminal offenses." It "cannot be ruled out" that the payment was made from legal sources. The verdict is not final, an appeal is possible.
The trial for eight properties in Berlin began in January. The public prosecutor's office assumed that the young man from a well-known extended family of Arab origin bought the properties or acquired shares in them from 2015 to 2019 with money from criminal activities. In one of the cases, he had made a purchase worth around one million euros as the owner of a company. The man's lawyer denied this during the trial.
The man had previously been under investigation on suspicion of money laundering. The proceedings were discontinued in 2020 due to a lack of sufficient suspicion.
A total of 77 properties worth millions of euros, which were attributed to the Berlin clan, were provisionally seized in a spectacular operation in July 2018. Police and prosecutors assumed that these houses, apartments and plots of land had been purchased with money from criminal activities. Cash deposits from abroad and bank transfers are also alleged to have been involved. A decision by the regional court on several of the properties is already legally binding.
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Source: www.stern.de
