Massive interventions, a meeting at the rest stop, a promotion: chats from Thomas Schmid reveal dubious processes relating to a tax rebate for Siegfried Wolf.
On Tuesday, the entrepreneur Siegfried Wolf had sent out a special message that there were no financial criminal proceedings against him. That may be correct, but since Wednesday it has been known that there are indeed investigations against him, on the basis of a much more serious allegation: it involves bribery. According to the suspicion of the Economic and Corruption Public Prosecutor’s Office (WKStA), Wolf is said to have helped a tax officer to become head of the Baden tax office and in return received a tax rebate of 630,000 euros.
Once again, the chat logs of Thomas Schmid, former head of the state investment company Öbag and previously Secretary General in the Ministry of Finance, have proven to be explosive. The order for the house search of the tax officer K., which is available to the press, describes how the deal should have expired in detail.