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The German tax office wrote to the Cologne prosecutors to say there were “concrete indications” that Santander had acted as a short seller. Three pension funds had also used loans from Macquarie, people with direct knowledge of the matter say. “Macquarie will continue to cooperate fully with the German authorities,” a Macquarie spokesman said. “It has already resolved its two other matters involving German dividend trading that took place between 2006 and 2009.”.

The spokesman declined to say how they were resolved, Similar investigations have been opened in Frankfurt and Munich, but Cologne, whose prosecutors specialize in international tax crime, made a breakthrough when at least six people involved in the trading gave detailed evidence, according to the documents, Other banks, including Unicredit’s German arm, have acknowledged they were also involved in such trading, A spokeswoman for UniCredit (CRDI.MI) said its German unit had been involved in cum-ex trading but that all criminal proceedings had since syracuse's carrier dome floor cufflinks been terminated after, among other things, the payment of fines, She declined to comment further..

A spokesman for Deutsche Bank said it had not participated in an “organized cum-ex market” but that it had been “involved in some of its clients’ cum-ex transactions.” It said it was cooperating with the authorities. Referring to all the banks involved, Norbert Walter-Borjans, the former finance minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, which includes Cologne, said:  “They grabbed the kitty that had been paid for by ordinary tax payers.”. “It is clear that it was against the law..How can it be legal to get something back twice or three times that has been paid only once?” he said.

According to the prosecutors, the scheme was promoted by German tax inspector-turned-tax adviser Hanno Berger and others, He advised Macquarie on cum-ex trading, according to a letter seen by Reuters which was sent by Berger to a Macquarie employee in March 2008, Berger told Reuters he also provided advice to Macquarie on the scheme in later years but he said syracuse's carrier dome floor cufflinks he was not paid for it, The Macquarie spokesman declined to comment on Berger or the letter, Macquarie said last month its incoming and outgoing chief executives are expected to be named as suspects by prosecutors, The pair were aware of the reputational risk to the bank of the trades, the documents show..

Berger, the central suspect in the investigation who is living in exile in the Swiss Alps, said the banks used a legitimate loophole, which was closed in 2012, and did not break the law. “They (the German state) cannot punish others for their mistakes,” he told Reuters. Some German officials and prosecutors refute this claim, noting that Germany made attempts to stamp out the practice by changing and clarifying the law in 2007, 2009 and 2012. One top German official, who asked not to be named, said those efforts made clear the trading was illegal.

German authorities estimate the scheme cost the state 5.6 billion euros in tax rebates that should never have been paid, while some experts believe the damage could be 10 billion euros, The state prosecutor in Cologne declined to comment, The documents show that the prosecutors in Cologne made a major breakthrough last year when a group of bankers, including a former Macquarie employee, offered information that showed Santander, Macquarie and others profited from the scheme, Macquarie estimates that it may have to pay 100 million euros in total legal settlements from the trades, roughly half of which it has already paid, according to a person syracuse's carrier dome floor cufflinks with knowledge of the matter..

Internal Macquarie emails show that outgoing CEO Nicholas Moore and his successor in waiting, Shemara Wikramanayake, were aware of the reputational risks of the trades and involved in discussions about the funding.  A spokesman for Macquarie said Moore and Wikramanayake would not comment. In October 2010, Wikramanayake and three other executives sent a memorandum seen by Reuters to Macquarie’s board of directors. It outlined a funding opportunity that would earn Macquarie between 15 and 20 million euros on each of three 1.1 billion euro loan facilities.

It earned a fee for these loan facilities, “There is a risk that German revenue authorities may seek to deny tax reclaims and take some other action against the parties involved,” they wrote, They said the “anticipated returns” should be weighed against the negative “reputational risk”, Wikramanayake and Moore attended part of a meeting of directors on October 28 2010 in Sydney, when the deals and the “reputation risk” were discussed, syracuse's carrier dome floor cufflinks according to minutes of the meeting seen by Reuters..

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