Dieter Holzer

The following important information is missing from this article or section:

Life data: education, career

Help Wikipedia by researching and pasting it .

Dieter Holzer (born November 14, 1941 in Quiigart , Saarland ; † June 16, 2016 there ) was a German businessman and lobbyist who became known in the context of the Leuna affair . Holzer has been the subject of public prosecutor investigations since 1996. On November 12, 2003, the criminal court in Paris spokeDieter Holzer guilty of having committed offenses of embezzlement and embezzlement of assets, abuse of power (or embezzlement) and stolen goods (either as a direct offender or as a criminal to the detriment of Elf Aquitaine SA). With the same verdict, Dieter Holzer was sentenced to reimburse Elf Aquitaine SA for the assets it had lost as a result of the criminal acts. All legal remedies raised against this were dismissed with the judgment of the appellate court of March 31, 2005 and the first instance judgment was thus confirmed.

Life

Holzer had been married to Souade Salyoun, a cousin of former Lebanese President Amin Gemayel , since 1967 , and they have two sons. After having had his main residence in Monaco for many years , he last lived in Wadern in the Saarland and in RL-Hazieh in Lebanon . He owned an internationally diversified real estate fortune.

Leuna affair

Holzer became known in the context of the so-called Leuna affair . In the course of the acquisition of the Leuna refinery and the mineral oil company Minol by the French company Elf Aquitaine in 1990/91, bribes are said to have flowed.

The Elf Aquitaine group hired Holzer as a consultant. Holzer earned around 50 million marks at this post.

In the process of taking advantage of the French oil company Elf, Holzer was sentenced in his absence in Paris to 15 months' imprisonment and a fine of 1.5 million euros. With his consent, Holzer could have been extradited to France for execution. Holzer's negotiating partner at the time, Pierre Lethier , the retired deputy head of the Direction de la surveillance du territoire , received the same penalties. Holzer took legal action against his judgment and applied for the sentence to be suspended. The case went through the courts up to the Federal Constitutional Court. On January 29, 2009, Holzer failed there. He then filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. In March 2009 Holzer started his prison sentence in Neunkirchen.

For the purchase of the Leuna refinery and the East German Minol filling station network, which was coupled with billions in subsidies, Holzer and Lethier had collected the equivalent of 39 million euros in 1993. In court, both had described this as industry-standard consultancy fees and rejected the suspicion that the money had been used to smear German party representatives. Holzer was sentenced to repay 39 million euros in bribes.

Travel assistance for Holger Pfahls

On July 3, 2008, Holzer was brought to trial in Augsburg. The public prosecutor's office accused the businessman of making unofficial false statements in a trial against Max Strauss . “But above all it is about the accusation of thwarting punishment . The prosecution regards it as proven that Holzer is said to have organized and financed at least the last 19 months of the escape of Pfahls in France. "

After an agreement between the judge, public prosecutor and defense attorney, Holzer had admitted that he had helped the former Secretary of State for Defense Ludwig-Holger Pfahls with contacts and money on his five-year escape. Holzer has been sentenced to nine months probation and a monetary requirement of 250,000 euros by the Augsburg regional court . The court refrained from further hearing of witnesses, including that of the former State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation, Siegfried Lengl ( CSU ).

On December 15, 2010, Holzer and Holger Pfahls were arrested in the course of a nationwide search. The Augsburg public prosecutor's office accused him of assisting Pfahls in concealing his property. Pfahls had evaded his obligation to pay from fines, procedural costs and tax. On November 9, 2011, the Augsburg Regional Court sentenced Pfahls to four years and six months imprisonment for bankruptcy (Section 283 StGB), and Holzer for aiding and abetting three years and six months' imprisonment.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thomas Braun: Lobbyist Dieter Holzer died. (No longer available online.) Saarländischer Rundfunk , June 21, 2016, archived from the original on June 28, 2016 ; Retrieved July 2, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Elf Corruption Trial Reaches French Courts ( Memento from February 19, 2005 in the Internet Archive ), Deutsche Welle , March 18, 2003.
3. ^ No desire for France , Manager Magazin , June 1, 2007.
4. ↑ Lobbyist Dieter Holzer has started imprisonment (Saarbrücker Zeitung online from March 4, 2009 ( Memento of the original from March 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to instructions and then remove this notice. ).  
5. ↑ Holger Pfahls wanted, Dieter Holzer found , Die Zeit No. 36/2001.
6. ↑ The Endless Affair of the Shadow Man , Spiegel Online , July 2, 2008.
7. ↑ Holzer gets away with a suspended sentence , Süddeutsche Zeitung , July 24, 2008.
8. ↑ SPIEGEL online from December 22, 2010: Suspected bankruptcy. Ex-State Secretary Pfahls and lobbyist Holzer arrested (last checked on February 28, 2011).
9. ↑ taz online of November 9, 2011: Four and a half years imprisonment for stake .