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Schwerin (dpa / mv) - Two former executives of the Müritz district association of the Arbeiterwohlfahrt (Awo) have to answer before the Schwerin regional court from this Thursday.

The public prosecutor's office accuses the long-standing Awo managing director Peter Olijnyk and former district association chairman Götz-Peter Lohmann of particularly serious infidelity or aiding and abetting.

The now 72-year-old Olijnyk and the 78-year-old former SPD member of the Bundestag Lohmann are alleged to have obtained lucrative income for each other between 2005 and 2016, bypassing the AWO bodies at the expense of the AWO.

The case was already the occasion for a parliamentary committee of inquiry of the state parliament, which dealt with the promotion of the welfare associations as a whole.

He lost a civil case between the Awo and Olijnyk before the Higher Regional Court (OLG).

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