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 Karlheinz Schreiber

Karlheinz Schreiber

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2007-11-12

Karlheinz Schreiber (1934 in Petersdorf (Thüringen)) is a German-born Canadian lobbyist, fundraiser, arms dealer and businessman. He is chiefly known for his alleged role in the 1999 CDU contributions scandal in Germany, which damaged the political legacy of former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, and the Airbus affair in Canada, which was linked through allegation to former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.

Early Career

Schreiber began his career working for the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) or West German intelligence service. After leaving the agency he became an international arms dealer, lobbyist, and deal maker. He was a fundraiser for the Christian Democratic Party and Christian Social Union in West Germany before and during Helmut Kohl's chancellorship, and was a figure in the party financing scandal that erupted in 1999, discrediting Kohl's political legacy.

Role in Canada

He was a key figure in Canada's Airbus affair, in which he was alleged to have arranged secret commissions to be paid to Brian Mulroney and lobbyist Frank Moores in exchange for then Crown corporation Air Canada's purchase of Airbus jets. Schreiber did make cash payments to Brian Mulroney shortly after Mulroney's departure from politics. Schreiber had previously been a key fundraiser in Mulroney's successful campaign to win the leadership of the Progressive Conservative party in 1983.

Since 1999, the Canadian citizen and resident has fought extradition to his native Germany, where he is wanted on allegations of fraud, bribery and failure to pay $20 million in taxes to the German government on commissions related to sales in the 1980s of Airbus jets. [1]

In October 2004, Canadian Justice Minister Irwin Cotler ordered Schreiber to surrender himself to German authorities. [2] Schreiber, however, remains in Canada pending the exhaustion of his appeals.

On February 1, 2007, the Supreme Court of Canada accepted the extradition to his native Germany, where he will be facing accusations on the counts of corruption and fraud. On May 10, 2007, the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled that extradition was appropriate as it is "for the German courts to deal with the applicant's apprehension of prejudgement and to fashion the appropriate remedy, if one is warranted." [1]

On March 24, 2007, he filed suit in the Ontario Superior Court against Brian Mulroney for services not rendered. He alleges that Mulroney agreed to aid in the building of a factory to make light armoured vehicles in Quebec. Schreiber alleges that he made a $300,000 payment in cash over a decade ago, in 1993/1994, and that Mulroney never held up his end of the bargain.

In October 2007, Schreiber had apparently outlasted all avenues of legal appeal, and was set to be extradited to Germany to face charges there. But his lawyer Edward Greenspan made a last-ditch motion using a rarely-used provision, which granted him another delay; he remains free on bail, but must stay in the Toronto area.

In Books

Schreiber's career in Canada is reviewed in the 2001 book by Stevie Cameron and Harvey (sic - Hugh) Cashore, The Last Amigo: Karlheinz Schreiber and the Anatomy of a Scandal. He is prominent in Cameron's On the Take: Crime, Corruption and Greed in the Mulroney Years (1995).
 

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