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Response to investigations: RBB relieves legal director of official duties

2022-10-07T21:33:17.837Z


The felt affair at the RBB draws wider circles. Legal Director Susanne Lange has been relieved of her duties. It had previously become known that the Attorney General's Office was investigating against her.


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In the affair surrounding the Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB), the broadcaster has the legal director, Susann Lange, who is part of the management, from her official duties for the time being.

This is done by mutual agreement and until the allegations have been clarified, as the RBB announced.

This week it became known that the Berlin Attorney General's office in the middle of the RBB affair about nepotism has expanded the investigation to two members of the management board, including Lange.

It is about the suspicion of infidelity and aiding and abetting infidelity with a view to the introduction of a variable remuneration system and continued salary payments to employees who are no longer employed.

»No admission of guilt«

The interim director Katrin Vernau said that the childbirth was not an admission of guilt.

"With this far-reaching step, however, we want to avoid any appearance that the current public prosecutor's investigation could affect the exercise of the office of legal director of the RBB or the management of the legal department." The presumption of innocence continues to apply without restriction.

So far, the public prosecutor's office has been investigating against the director Patricia Schlesinger, who was fired without notice, her husband and former SPIEGEL journalist Gerhard Spörl, and against the resigned station chief inspector Wolf-Dieter Wolf on suspicion of infidelity and accepting advantages.

The presumption of innocence applies until clarification.

Schlesinger and Wolf rejected allegations.

The affair had started with media reports of allegations of nepotism and the felt.

It's about controversial consulting contracts for a construction project by the public broadcaster that has now been put on hold, undisclosed bonus payments for executives, a hefty salary increase for Schlesinger, the billing of food with invited guests in her private apartment at RBB's expense, controversial Travel and coaching assignments for Schlesinger's husband at the state-owned Messe Berlin.

Wolf was also chief inspector there in personal union.

Some time ago, the trade fair supervisory board specifically announced that a compliance investigation had shown that there were no violations of public procurement law and that the orders for the trade fair had been awarded correctly.

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Source: spiegel

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