Berlin: Remmo clan in sight-money laundering allegations in court

Von NAG Redaktion

The Berlin Regional Court has started to negotiate five properties of the Remmo clan, which are to be confiscated due to the suspicion that they were acquired with money from crimes. The clan, Arab origin and consisting of around 1000 members, including severe criminals, has already drawn attention to itself through spectacular thefts such as that of the giant gold coin from the Berlin Bode Museum and the break-in into the green vault in Dresden. In 2018, 77 real estate of the clan worth nine million euros were confiscated.

The procedure in court in particular concerns Karim R., a member of the clan who is considered a "affected person" and not as a defendant. The process, a so -called independent collecting procedure, is expected to be conducted on 25 trial days, and the judgment is expected on October 7th. The public prosecutor is convinced that the clan's properties were acquired between 2013 and 2019 with funds that come from commercial theft, fraud or other crimes. Although money laundering criminal proceedings have been discontinued, there is suspicion that the financial resources come from criminal machinations.

The goal of the procedure is the confiscation of apartments and land in various Berlin districts, including the Tempelhofer Eschersheimer Straße, the Neuköllner on Hanfgraben, Rudower Straße and the Buckow Goldhickenweg. The defense argues that R. has only been convicted of a criminal offense in road traffic and that the assets can be attributed to old family savings from Lebanon. R. allegedly paid over 300,000 euros in income tax, but only from 2015, since he had previously received unemployment benefit. Nevertheless, he has already received a punishment for commercial social fraud, which is still in appeal.