German fraud trial may throw light on slush fund affair | NewsBag

Prosecutor Marcus Paintinger told the court in Augsburg, southern Germany, that Schreiber had withheld €13.3m in taxes from the €32m commission he received from sales of Airbus aeroplanes to Thailand, helicopters to the Canadian coastguard, ... to the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) allegedly handed over in a suitcase to the CDU treasurer in a Swiss car park in the 1990s, which damaged the reputation of former chancellor Helmut Kohl and ultimately led to his downfall. ...