German-Canadian businessman Karlheinz Schreiber leaves the German Consulate in Toronto Monday Jan. 15, 2001. Schreiber was meeting with German prosecuters regarding his alleged links to a financial scandal surrounding former Chancellor Helmut Kohl. And now the two fight.
Nobody knows why.
The committee is investigating whether Schreiber's donation was linked to German government support for a defence project in Canada by a subsidiary of Thyssen, a German arms maker. When the treasurer came to my place to pick up the donation I was not around. No politician used influence to get a wealthy Canadian family a tax break worth hundreds of millions of dollars, a former Revenue Canada deputy minister told a federal court judge Friday.