Thursday March 25, 2021
Invoice sent to Finck
Gauweiler is said to have collected eleven million
According to a media report, the CSU politician Peter Gauweiler is said to have billed billionaire August von Finck eleven million euros in consultancy fees. Explosive: The last bill was made at the same time as he left the Bundestag.
The CSU politician and lawyer Peter Gauweiler sent bills of eleven million euros to billionaire August von Finck during his time as a member of the Bundestag. This is proven by research by the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”. As a lawyer, Gauweiler regularly billed consulting fees at Finck, the paper writes. Gauweiler also had Finck reimbursed the costs for expert opinions from professors. In total, it was around eleven million euros, together with the reimbursed appraisal costs even more than twelve.
The newspaper calculates that Gauweiler has invoiced Finck quarterly 416,500 euros for “consulting services”. The annual bills amounted to 1.785 million euros, including VAT. For seven years, Gauweiler regularly sent invoices to Finck. According to the report, the last took place when he left the Bundestag at the end of March 2015.
In addition, the former CSU deputy chairman Gauweiler secured Finck’s financial support in the lawsuit against the rescue packages for Greece and the euro before the Federal Constitutional Court. According to the newspaper, Gauweiler paid almost 60,000 euros for an expert report by the well-known economist Hans-Werner Sinn for this lawsuit. Finck, a well-known Eurosceptic, had then reimbursed this bill – and according to “SZ” not only in this case.
The fortune of the 91-year-old Finck, who now lives in Switzerland, is now estimated at 8.3 billion US dollars. The billionaire is known for his large donations to the FDP. In 2013 Finck hit the headlines because there was suspicion that he would be supporting the AfD financially.
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