{"id":10119,"date":"2013-08-11T06:33:23","date_gmt":"2013-08-11T04:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/?p=10119"},"modified":"2013-11-26T09:52:33","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T08:52:33","slug":"the-mollath-affair-and-nuremberg-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/the-mollath-affair-and-nuremberg-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mollath Affair and Nuremberg Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"

On this site, we advocate saying something if you see something.\u00a0 Public reporting and public protest are among the best tools available to combat corruption.\u00a0 But we are not na\u00efve.\u00a0 There are consequences to standing up and standing out.<\/p>\n

A story that has hit headlines across Europe concerns a German vintage car dealer who reported transactions he thought his wife was conducting.\u00a0 They involved the sending and hiding undeclared income of German citizens in a Swiss bank account. Most of the illegal money was funnelled through Hypo Vereinsbank (Hypovereinsbank Rport 2003\u00a0<\/a>)\u00a0which has been taken over by UniCredit of Italy.<\/p>\n

After Gustl Mollath reported this, he was taken to trial and accused of beating his wife and slashing tires on cars.\u00a0 His reports of tax evasion were treated as the musings of a paranoid.\u00a0 While the sequence of events surrounding the Mollath Affair are not clear, it may have been convenient for interested parties to put Mollath away in an insane asylum for life rather than taking him to trial for wife beating.<\/p>\n

In any case, the mix of a marriage falling apart, Bavarian politics and bank takeovers leaves a murky trail.<\/p>\n

The following is known:\u00a0 the bank admits employees laundered money, a physician who wrote the report that Mollath beat his wife had never met either party.\u00a0 And a Bavarian Minister of Justice Beate Merk, said that there was no evidence of money laundering when the bank\u2019s admission is a matter of public record.\u00a0 She later changed her story:\u00a0 whatever transactions \u00a0had taken place were \u2018not indictable.\u2019<\/p>\n

Only public outcries and an upcoming election got Mollath released from the asylum.\u00a0 He is free until another trial is commenced.\u00a0 One wonders on what grounds a new trial can be instituted since all the evidence in the first trial was fraudulent or tainted.<\/p>\n

Because Mollath is not your ordinary whistleblower, and may have come forward with information he gathered in his home to hurt his wife as part of a domestic dispute, we are not prepared to say that he fits the classic whistleblower mode.<\/p>\n

What we can say is that his treatment was horrific.\u00a0\u00a0In the very city where Nazi criminals were tried after the Second World War, a higher court \u201cOberlandesgericht Nuremberg\u201d freed Mollath. \u00a0The Mollath Affair<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Mollath\"<\/a>More on German side\u00a0 <\/a>
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