Waste incineration plant, illustrative image. — Illustrative image. Photo: Ivan Bandura, CC BY 2.0

Waste Incineration Plant, Cologne — Contract Included, Kickbacks Extra

One residual-waste plant contract, approx. 800 million DM. Bribes of over 20 million DM sold separately.

Sold2005Local

more than DEM 20M≈ €10.2MAs stated in the source: über 20 Mio. DM

Already sold, in 2005. Nothing on Lobay is for sale.

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Seller

Role: managing director (Geschäftsführer) of the city-majority-owned waste company
Institution: city-majority-owned waste company
Place: Köln
Country: Germany

Item specifics

Condition	Convicted; final since 2 December 2005 (Bundesgerichtshof)
Location	Köln, Germany
Seller	Managing director of a city-majority-owned waste company. Name withheld.
Winning bidder	A construction firm commissioned to build the plant (name not in the documents)
Category	Waste and utilities
Returns	No returns. Prison: 3 years 9 months (2004); another defendant: suspended 2 years plus 270 daily rates

Description

What the bribe bought

The bribes helped win the contract to build the Cologne residual-waste incineration plant, with an agreed contract price of approximately 800 million DM (contract price, not profit).

Return on bribe: Every DEM 1 of bribes bought contracts worth about DEM 40.Rough figure: the bribe is stated as “more than”, the gain as “approximately”.

What happened

A construction firm commissioned to build a residual-waste incineration plant in Cologne paid bribes of more than 20 million DM in connection with the project. The recipient was the managing director of a city-majority-owned waste company. In 2004 the Landgericht Köln convicted the defendants; one was sentenced to three years and nine months in prison. On 2 December 2005 the Federal Court of Justice dismissed the defendants' appeals, making the convictions final.

Read the article

BGH: Verurteilungen im „Kölner Müllskandal“ mit 20 Mio. DM Schmiergeld rechtskräftig · juraforum.de · Article in German

Official record

Verurteilungen im „Kölner Müllskandal“ rechtskräftig (Nr. 168/2005) · Bundesgerichtshof · Article in German

Shipping & returns

Authority	Kind	Amount	Year
Landgericht Köln	prison sentence	zu drei Jahren und neun Monaten Freiheitsstrafe verurteilt	2004
Landgericht Köln	suspended prison sentence and fine	eine zur Bewährung ausgesetzte zweijährige Freiheitsstrafe sowie eine Geldstrafe von 270 Tagessätzen	2004