{
  "id": 20128258,
  "title": "Crime: \"Jail Tourism\": Hanno Berger, a corrupt chief public prosecutor and a sham residence",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/15/crime-knasttourismus-hanno-berger-ein-korrupter-oberstaatsanwalt-und",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-11-15T06:35:49.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Handelsblatt",
    "slug": "handelsblatt",
    "url": "https://www.handelsblatt.com/audio/crime/crime-hanno-berger-ein-korrupter-oberstaatsanwalt-und-eine-scheinwohnung/100269962.html"
  },
  "original_language": "de",
  "account": "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.",
  "summary": "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.",
  "key_points": [
    "Alexander Badle moved to Berlin in January 2023, claiming to share an apartment with Hanno Berger.",
    "Hanno Berger, central figure in Cum-Ex scandal, was sentenced to eight years in prison.",
    "Landgericht Frankfurt dismissed Badle's story as fantasy, labeling it \"Knasttourismus\"."
  ],
  "editors_take": "The use of fraudulent residential registrations by high-profile convicts highlights a systemic loophole that allows prisoners to exploit Berlin's more lenient correctional environment to evade stricter regional sentencing.",
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}