The AfD District Association Nordhausen-Eichsfeld-Mühlhausen is particularly in focus. For one, of course, because of the prominent chairman: At the top of the regional group is the Thuringian state and parliamentary leader of the AfD - Björn Höcke.
On the other hand, but also because of questionable payments from 2016, for which the Bundestag administration is now demanding a fine: 34,168.96 euros to pay the AfD. The SPIEGEL learned from the Bundestag. Also the ZDF reports about it.
It is about the financing of an earlier Kyffhäuser meeting of the "wing", the right wing within the AfD. Participants' fees for the meeting and other higher amounts have to be paid in through the account of the district association, which may be to be donated.
From the Bundestag it says now, in the statement of account of the AfD from the year 2017 the income of the party in connection with the "Kyffhäusertreffen" had not been recorded. It is about an amount of 17,084.48 euros. For the calculation of the penalty this sum was doubled.
Such penalties are paid in practice, with the parties receiving correspondingly fewer grants in the coming year.
In the AfD donation scandal so far two penalties were issued by the Bundestag administration in the amount of 409,000 euros, against which the party complains. It is in the cases of AfD Co-party Jörg Meuthen and today's AfD European politician Guido Reil for covert election campaign assistance by the Swiss PR agency Goal AG.