Status: 08/08/2022 5:03 p.m
After her retirement as rbbboss is now investigating the Berlin public prosecutor’s office against Schlesinger, her husband Spörl and the head of the board of directors rbb, wolves. There is an initial suspicion of infidelity and taking advantage.
Against the resigned rbbDirector Patricia Schlesinger is now investigating the public prosecutor’s office in Berlin. According to the Attorney General, there is an initial suspicion of infidelity and taking advantage of Schlesinger, her husband Gerhard Spörl and the head of the board of directors rbb, Wolf-Dieter Wolf, who is also the chairman of the supervisory board of the state-owned Messe Berlin.
The Brandenburg AfD parliamentary group had already reported Schlesinger in July, but the public prosecutor’s office had not started any investigations at the time. Now, however, there have been new publications, said a spokesman for the Attorney General’s Office.
Numerous allegations
Schlesinger was on Sunday as rbb– Director resigned. She had previously resigned from the chair of ARD.
The previously unsolved allegations had come to light through publications in various media. They range from questionable consultancy contracts to one that has since been put on hold rbbconstruction project, a salary increase for Schlesinger to a good 300,000 euros and an additional bonus system. It is also about alleged food with “multipliers” on rbb-Costs in her private apartment and an expensive company car, for which there is said to have been a very high discount.
The broadcaster had denied the allegations against her. In a statement about her resignation on Sunday, she spoke of “personal allegations and defamation”. The external investigation is currently ongoing. A whistleblower system was also set up at the station for this purpose. Results are not expected for a few weeks.
Berlin and Brandenburg are calling for clarification
The federal states of Berlin and Brandenburg are calling for a complete clarification of the affair. Berlin’s Governing Mayor Franziska Giffey welcomed Schlesinger’s resignation as “the right step to prevent further damage from rbb “Precautions are now needed in the supervisory bodies so that such events cannot be repeated.
Brandenburg’s Secretary of State for Media, Benjamin Grimm, also spoke out in favor of stronger control mechanisms in the public broadcaster. He explained that the upcoming amendment to the State Treaty of the rbb also an opportunity – transparency and control in the station as a whole must be strengthened. “Because this is the only way public service broadcasting will succeed in being perceived with its core task: quality journalism for our region.”