Because of the suspicion of large-scale fraud, the federal government is stopping the advance payments of the Corona aid. This is what the "Business Insider" reports, citing in its own research.
Accordingly, November and December aid as well as bridging aid I to III are affected. This category includes restaurants, hotels and also retailers, for example. As the magazine reports, "hitherto unknowns are said to have exploited a loophole in several federal corona aid".
They are said to have pretended to be a "third party checking" with false identities - for example, as a tax advisor. It is only possible to apply for aid funds for companies through auditing third parties.
The requested funds should then not have flowed into the accounts of the companies, but into those of the fraudsters. The Ministry of Economic Affairs only noticed the scam last week.
The Ministry of Economic Affairs confirmed to the "Business Insider" that there are cases of fraud. "In addition, the payments on account are currently being examined. In view of the ongoing investigations, I cannot provide any further details," said a spokeswoman.
It is a change in EU security policy: With a specially created budget outside the EU budget, arms and ammunition deliveries to third countries are to be possible for the first time. The "European Peace Facility" (EPF).
An "instrument to strengthen the capacities of third countries as well as regional and international organizations in military and defense issues", as it is in the draft of the German "#Monitor";
Somewhat encapsulated means nothing else than that the EU can in future also deliver military equipment such as handguns, guns, howitzers or cannons to countries in crisis regions. So far, only states could do this on their own responsibility, but not the EU.
In the corruption investigation against the member of the Bundestag and former CSU man Georg Nüßlein because of the mask affair, there is now a third accused. A spokesman for the Munich attorney general said it was not a politician.
But he did not want to give any further details. According to information from the German Press Agency, there had been another search in Munich during the preliminary investigation. The other accused is said to be a businessman.
Two weeks ago, the public prosecutor's office had 13 properties in Germany and Liechtenstein searched in connection with the investigation against Nüßlein and a second, unnamed accused.
Germany's Federal Foreign Minister Heiko Maas travels to Paris for talks on reviving the "peace process" between Israel and the Palestinians.
There he wants to consult with his counterparts from France, Jordan and Egypt on how to get movement back into the deadlocked conflict. Already yesterday Jordans foregin minister did meet with Heiko Maas in Berlin for the peace process in the midle east.
Under Section 7031(c) of the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act 2021, the US State Department has placed a travel ban on Ali Hemmatian and Masoud Safdari,
who are identified as interrogators of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. They are accused of “gross human rights violations,” including torture and/or barbaric, inhuman,
or degrading treatment or punishment of political detainees detained during protests in Iran in 2019 and 2020. Their immediate family members may also be refused admission to the United States.
Here the original report of the earthquake with english subtittles to the 9.1Mw #Earthquake#地震 and the follwing #Tsunami#津波 in Japan. Were it is known as #東北地方太平洋沖地震 or in english Tohoku Pacific Ocean Earthquake. The earthquake and Tsunami killed at least 25,000.
The video is cut into two parts as it took several minuts as a #Tsunami warning had been issued in #Japan. Many people have lost there life and several hundret km coast line and innland area were completely destroyed and wiped out. Since then Japan drasticly improved its EEW.