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CDU politician Strenz died on flight back from Cuba at the age of 53 - public prosecutor intervened

2021-03-23T04:44:35.626Z


According to a media report, the CDU MP Karin Strenz died unexpectedly - on a flight back from Cuba. Strenz was the protagonist in a lobby scandal.


According to a media report, the CDU MP Karin Strenz died unexpectedly - on a flight back from Cuba.

Strenz was the protagonist in a lobby scandal.

Update from March 22nd, 2 p.m

.: The CDU MP Karin Strenz has apparently actually been to Cuba privately.

After the Bundestag announced that the politician had not flown to Cuba as part of a business trip, the CDU / CSU parliamentary group announced that it was not a parliamentary group trip.

In addition to many party friends, Union parliamentary group leader Ralph Brinkhaus also expressed his condolences: “The sudden death of our colleague Karin Strenz affects us all very much.

Our deepest condolences go to her family in these difficult hours. "

Update from March 22nd, 12.30 p.m.:

After the death of the Mecklenburg CDU member of the Bundestag Karin Strenz, the Schwerin public prosecutor wants to clarify the exact circumstances via a request for legal assistance to Ireland.

As a spokesman for the Schwerin authority told the dpa on Monday, a death investigation has been initiated.

According to the information available so far, the exact cause of death in the 53-year-old is still unclear.

"We assume that there will then be an autopsy of the dead in Ireland," said the prosecutor's spokesman.

With the usual death investigation procedure in such cases and the request one wants to get the necessary information from Ireland.

CDU politician Karin Strenz dead - MP was last privately in Cuba

Update from March 22nd, 10.15 a.m

.: The surprisingly deceased CDU politician Karin Strenz was with her husband not on behalf of the Bundestag, but privately in Cuba.

A parliamentary speaker told the dpa that it was not a business trip.

The cause of death has not yet been clarified.

The longstanding member of the Bundestag was recently the focus of corruption investigations.

The CDU politician's immunity was lifted in January 2020.

On the same day, the Frankfurt public prosecutor's office searched the private apartment and the parliamentary office of Strenz and a CSU politician.

A total of 16 apartments were built in Berlin, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Bavaria and Belgium.

The allegations: According to the Frankfurt public prosecutor's office, around four million euros should have flowed through British mailbox companies and Baltic accounts between 2008 and 2016.

As a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, Strenz is said to have accepted bribes of at least 22,000 euros from a pro-Azerbaijani lobby group.

As

reported down, Strenz had a

consulting

contract with the company Line M-Trade between 2014 and 2015.

This was founded by the former CSU State Secretary Eduard Lintner to "transfer funds from Azerbaijan to Germany to finance activities."

In 2017 it became known that Strenz had received two payments of 10,000 euros from the consulting company.

The CDU politician never gave the reason for the payments.

However, their commitment to Azerbaijan was particularly noticeable.

In June 2015, the CDU politician was the only German member of the Council of Europe to vote against the demand for political prisoners to be released in Azerbaijan.

In addition, Strenz worked for the Council of Europe as an election observer in the authoritarian state.

The reports by the CDU politician were surprisingly positive.

The Munich Public Prosecutor's Office has now taken over the investigation.

In addition to Strenz, her group colleague Axel E. Fischer is also under suspicion of corruption in the Azerbaijan case.

CDU politician Strenz died unexpectedly at the age of 53 - emergency landing on return flight from Cuba

First report from March 21, 10:25 p.m

.: Dublin / Munich - The CDU politician Karin Strenz died unexpectedly at the age of only 53 years.

The member of the Bundestag lost consciousness on a flight from Cuba to Germany.

During an emergency stopover in the Irish capital Dublin, Strenz's life could no longer be saved.

The background of the trip is still unclear.

The spokesman for the CDU * state group Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Eckhardt Rehberg, confirmed the death of his party friend to the dpa.

Strenz was out with her husband.

Rehberg was deeply affected and dismayed. 

Karin Strenz: CDU politician apparently died at the age of 53 - MP was part of the Azerbaijan affair

Strenz was recently again heavily criticized.

The Bundestag fined the politician from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in 2019 because, as a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, she was involved in a scandal over bribes from Azerbaijan.

In the course of the mask affair and further involvement of CDU politicians in alleged cash flows from the Near East country, Strenz also moved back into the public eye.

Despite the allegations, Strenz remained a member of the Bundestag, but she did not want to run for the upcoming election in September. The CDU politician had been a member of the Bundestag since 2009. In the 2009, 2013 and 2017 elections, she won one of the six direct mandates in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. From 2002 to 2006 and from 2007 to 2009 she was a member of the state parliament in the northeast. In the Bundestag, she last sat on the Defense Committee, among other things. (

fn with material from AFP and dpa

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