The Cologne public prosecutor's office has been searching the headquarters of the consulting firm KPMG in Frankfurt since Tuesday as part of the Cum-Ex investigation.
"In addition, the private homes of five (formerly) employed lawyers and tax consultants are being searched as suspects," prosecutors said on Wednesday.
KPMG confirmed the raid: "We are fully cooperating with the authorities," said a KPMG spokesman.
More than 60 investigators, including tax investigators from Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia and the Recklinghausen criminal police, are looking for relevant communication in the form of e-mails and other written correspondence during the raid.
First, the "Handelsblatt" reported about the searches.
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