Germany paid at least €4m (£3m) through its foreign intelligence service for information that has led to the investigation of Klaus Zumwinkel, Deutsche Post chief executive before he resigned last week, for tax evasion. The data could claim hundreds more victims in the biggest tax evasion crackdown in the country’s recent history.
The BND agency paid the amount to a former employee of LGT, Liechtenstein's biggest bank, for a DVD containing a list of alleged German tax-evaders.
