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Causa Wulff Causa Wulff refers to several political scandals that ultimately led to the resignation of Christian Wulff as President of the Federal Republic of Germany. In the beginning, there were questions concerning the purchase of a house for which Wulff had accepted a loan from an entrepreneur family with whom he was friends. In this context, Wulff tried to massively influence the media coverage in the run-up to the breaking of the scandal. Additional investigations were launched into Wulff’s political dealing with various entrepreneurs with whom he and his family spent their private vacations. Since it was not clear who had paid for these holidays, Wulff was subsequently accused of favoritism and unethical behavior. After the district attorney’s office in Hanover had requested the lifting of his immunity on February 16, 2012, Wulff resigned as German President the following day. He was acquitted of all corruption charges in February 2014. ==Background== In January 2010, German media reported that Christian Wulff, then Minister-President of Lower Saxony, had accepted a complimentary flight upgrade from Air Berlin for a family trip to Miami on September 15, 2009. In doing so, he had violated the ministerial laws of Lower Saxony, which prohibits members of the state government from accepting gifts with a value above 10 Euro. Subsequently, Wulff paid the difference of 3,000 Euro to Air Berlin as compensation for his flight upgrade. Following this incident, the Green faction in the state parliament of Lower Saxony launched a parliamentary inquiry to get information about potential business dealings between Wulff and the local entrepreneur Egon Geerkens. In responding to this inquiry, the State Chancellery of Lower Saxony denied any business relationship between Wulff and Geerkens. In June 2010, Wulff was elected German President. Following rumors about possible favors obtained by Wulff in connection with the purchase of a house in early 2009, the news magazine ''Der Spiegel'' contacted the local registry of deeds on December 14, 2010 to demand access to his files. This request was denied on December 16, 2010, prompting ''Der Spiegel'' to call on the Higher Regional Court in Celle to overturn that decision. After that court only partially overturned the earlier determination,〔 ''Der Spiegel'' appealed to the Federal Court of Justice, which sustained the appeal and ordered the registry of deeds to grant the news magazine access to Wulff’s files.〔〔 On October 20, 2011, ''Der Spiegel'' accessed the registry of deeds and found out that the house had a lien of 500,000 Euro against it and that the Stuttgart-based BW Bank had provided a financing loan of 415,000 Euro.〔
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