Overview
- Two former board members and a former supervisory board member are accused of bankruptcy in a particularly serious case, aiding and abetting, and false representation in the bank’s accounts.
- Investigators allege the ex-executives arranged refinancing in 2021 for a partner’s €2.18 billion steelworks purchase in violation of banking supervision rules.
- The indictment says the credit program was booked in trading records and the 2019 annual report as low risk and legally permissible despite its exposure.
- The filing notes that a conviction for bankruptcy in a particularly serious case can carry prison sentences of up to ten years.
- A separate civil lawsuit by insolvency administrator Michael Frege seeks more than €92 million, and while private savers were compensated after the 2021 collapse, many municipalities incurred heavy losses.