It got brought up today by Focus (the German news magazine) that one worker with BAMF (the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees is under investigation for having signed off on approved asylum in a massive way (1,200 episodes), but there were no real or truthful conditions met.
This goes to a division or group up in the Bremen area (north Germany).
The suggestion here? There are four folks tied into this government investigation.....a branch chief, and three lawyers who worked with the individual. The suggestion here is that some form of bribes took place. No one says any amount, or what this totals out.
Some suggestion via the way the way that the article was written....suggest that some gang or mafia-like group was part of the episode. My guess is that they represented the applicant in some way, and knew the way to float a cash envelope over to the BAMF folks.
So you stand back and look at the results here....a high number of folks who got a positive asylum application, when they probably should have failed.
What'll happen now? The journalists didn't really spell out this investigation. I would assume that you'd be talking about six months of tracking cash transfers and trying to coach these four folks to admit this and avoid a real court episode. What about the 1,200 individuals? Well....that's be a curious thing. You would think they'd drag the folks back into a room, and have them start from scratch....with most of them likely failing.
But here's this other factor.....is this Bremen office the ONLY one that took bribes? Will a massive investigation start up across all of the BAMF offices and they come to suggest dozens of other individuals took various bribes? You just don't know. Nor do I think that the German authorities really want to suggest to the public that there's a big corruption factor here.
I sat and pondered over the bribe detail.....left out of this entire story. I can't imagine the bribe being less than 1,000 Euro (each). If a gang-member or mafia-group was involved? Well....they'd want their cut, so you could be talking about a 1,500 Euro fee to get the mafia-guy and the BAMF guy all hooked up.
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