Crime: "Jail Tourism": Hanno Berger, a corrupt chief public prosecutor and a sham residence
The corrupt chief public prosecutor Alexander Badle, Cum-Ex mastermind Hanno Berger and a lawyer from PwC Legal: How an address in Berlin was supposed to bring two criminals leniency.
Alexander Badle, a former Frankfurt prosecutor, registered a new address at Kurfürstendamm 193 in Berlin in January 2023 while in pre-trial detention in Rhineland-Palatinate on corruption charges. His registered co-resident was Hanno Berger, a key figure in the Cum-Ex scandal who had recently been sentenced to eight years in prison.
The move has been termed "prison tourism" by the German Association of Criminal Police, as Berlin has a larger proportion of prisoners in open custody than other states. Badle claimed a lawyer, Christian Abel from PwC Legal in Hamburg, helped him with the move, but a Frankfurt court did not believe him.
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