Spy chief linked to Kohl scandal faces trial

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Spy chief linked to Kohl scandal faces trial
By Tony Paterson in Berlin
06 January 2005


Germany was preparing for new revelations yesterday about corruption in the government of its former conservative Chancellor, Helmut Kohl, after France disclosed it was ready to extradite a former German secret service chief charged in a political bribery scandal.

Holger Pfahls, 62, a former German defence ministry secretary and an ex-head of the German equivalent of M15, is charged with accepting the equivalent of more than £1m bribes for helping to advance the sale of German Fuchs tanks to Saudi Arabia during the 1990s.

He disappeared without trace in 1999 and spent five years on the run from the German authorities before he was caught and arrested in Paris in July last year.

Since then, legal wrangling in the French courts has prevented his extradition.

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WAS HE ASLO banking with RIGGS?

[gandalf]

1. In German press reports he is never called "Spy Chief"

The press calls him "former Staatssekretär", Staatssekretär being the level below the minister.

Probably his connections to German intelligence enabled him to stay undetected so long.