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The Flick Affair was a German political scandal of the early 1980s relating to political contributions by the Flick company, a major German conglomerate, to various political parties "for the cultivation of the political landscape". Otto Graf Lambsdorff, then minister for economic affairs, was forced to resign in 1984 after being accused of accepting bribes from Flick. The affair was made public by the news magazine ''Der Spiegel'' who also gave the public access to documents and files that had been confiscated from the Flick company. == Affair == The Flick affair began in 1975 with a share trade where the Flick company sold shares worth 1.9 Billion Deutsche Mark from Daimler AG to the Deutsche Bank. In January of the following year, the Flick Company filed a tax exemption for this deal, which was approved by the federal minister Hans Friderichs and later also by his successorOtto Graf Lambsdorff. Five years later, in 1981, the tax fraud investigator Klaus Förster found evidence that there had been money transfers from the Flick company to all parties in the German Bundestag. The cash book of the Flick company accountant Rudolph Diehl showed that next to other transfers, 250,000 Deutsche Mark was transferred to the CSU chairman Franz Josef Strauss and 565,000 Deutsche Mark were transferred to CDU chairman Helmut Kohl. The Kohl government had tried to pass a bill in 1984 which implied that all politicians who had received tax deductions for donations to political parties would be given an amnesty.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Flick affair」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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