Bundestag: Parliament lifts immunity of SPD MP Ahmetovic – investigators search office and private rooms

Berlin. The SPD member of the Bundestag Adis Ahmetovic wants to take action against the search of offices and private rooms by the Hanover public prosecutor's office. The politician's lawyer, Holger Nitz, said that they considered the measures to be illegal and would therefore lodge a complaint against the search warrant.

The Hanover public prosecutor's office had previously announced that the Bundestag office of SPD MP Adis Ahmetovic and three apartments had been searched in connection with the tender for the former clinic site in Lehrte near Hanover. Two apartments in Hanover and one in Berlin were affected, a spokesman for the Hanover public prosecutor's office told the German Press Agency.

Ahmetovic is being investigated on charges of aiding and abetting anti-competitive agreements in tenders in conjunction with violating trade secrets. The spokesman expressly confirmed the connection with the former site of the Hannover Region Hospital (KRH) in Lehrte.

Ahmetovic's lawyer criticized the fact that his client had so far been denied access to any files. The public prosecutor's allegations are incorrect. The searches were “superfluous and completely disproportionate”. They had already previously signaled their willingness to cooperate extensively with the public prosecutor's office and asked them to provide the necessary information so that the politician could issue a statement.