Since 2017, the anti-money laundering unit FIU (Financial Intelligence Unit) has received a total of 414 suspicious activity reports under the Money Laundering Act related to right-wing extremism.
This emerges from a response from the federal government to a parliamentary question from the domestic policy spokeswoman for the left-wing faction, Martina Renner.
According to this, 31 of these tips were related to real estate transactions by people from the right-wing extremist scene.
13 suspicious transaction reports related to the sale and distribution of weapons and ammunition.
Other cases involved the sale of products from right-wing extremist music labels or suspected money laundering in connection with concerts or festivals.
In the answer, which is available to the German Press Agency, it says that the FIU was also consulted in two cases involving suspected terrorist financing.
Last Wednesday, hundreds of police officers seized propaganda material and data carriers during searches in eleven federal states.
Four suspected members of a right-wing extremist criminal organization were arrested.
One of them is considered a key figure in the right-wing extremist martial arts scene.
"Nazi concerts, martial arts events and real estate transactions have served both to network and to finance right-wing extremists for years," said Renner.
The money often comes from drug and arms deals, is then “laundered” through real estate purchases and the origin is concealed.
These sources of income would have to be "dried up", investigations into organized crime and politically motivated crime should be brought together.