Kohl Accepts Fine to End Fraud Probe
From Times Wire Reports
Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl has agreed to pay a $140,000 fine--and avoid criminal prosecution--under a deal offered by prosecutors to close a criminal inquiry into his role in a party financing scandal.
Under the deal, Kohl would acknowledge a “breach of trust” for illegally accepting at least $1 million in cash donations for his Christian Democratic Union, his lawyer said.
The deal must still be approved by a Bonn court, and, though the prosecutors’ inquiry would end, a separate parliamentary investigation will continue.
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