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Investor Windhorst (2020)
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The excitement about a late payment to Hertha BSC had only just subsided - Lars Windhorst was already in the headlines again.
According to the "Financial Times" ("FT"), the German banking supervisory authority Bafin has filed criminal charges against the well-known investor because there are supposed to be irregularities at one of his companies.
The focus is therefore on the company Evergreen Funding, a financial vehicle based in Luxembourg, which is said to have transferred around 272 million euros to Windhorst in 2020 - although it only owned financial securities worth 263.5 million euros, the newspaper writes.
The Bafin is examining whether the transfer represents an illegal banking transaction, the "FT" report continues - an offense that would result in up to five years in prison.
Evergreen Funding's bank account has been frozen, the Berlin public prosecutor is investigating.
Windhorst confirmed the report in a tweet.
The investigation has been going on since May, he writes.
You are of course cooperating with the authorities, but you are "absolutely certain" that no illegal banking transactions have taken place.
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