German ministries searched in fraud probe

By AFP
September 10, 2021

BERLIN: German police on Thursday searched the offices of the finance and justice ministries in Berlin in connection with an investigation into hushed-up reports of money laundering, prosecutors said. The raids were part of a probe into the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), the anti-money laundering section of Germany’s customs authority, prosecutors in the city of Osnabrueck said in a statement.