Klaus Forster (1933 in
Schleswig
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– 26 January 2009 in
Bonn
The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr r ...
) was a German tax fraud investigator who became known after he uncovered the
Flick affair
The Flick affair was a West German political scandal of the early 1980s relating to donations by the Flick company, a major German conglomerate, to various political parties, according to Flick manager Eberhard von Brauchitsch, "for the cultivat ...
.
Life
Förster was born into a family of lawyers. After studying law he became a civil servant at the North Rhine Westphalian financial administration.
A routine operation brought him on the trail of a party funding scandal that he stubbornly pursued and which became known as Flick Affair nationwide. The Fathers of the Mission House St. Augustin the Divine Word Missionaries had made, at the suggestion of Walter Löhr, a money laundering place.
High income people received donation receipts that they could submit as tax deductible. In a house search in the Divine Word Mission documents concerning the Flick Group fell in the hands of the investigators. The investigators concluded that the Flick group had used this institution as a place to launder money for more than a decade.
References
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1933 births
2009 deaths
20th-century German civil servants