German Air Force Lieutenant General Ingo Gerhartz received a simple disciplinary sanction from the Bundeswehr after intercepting conversations between high-ranking German officers, the German news agency DPA reported on June 6, citing its own sources.
According to the DPA, Gerhartz must pay a disciplinary fine, thereby ending the disciplinary process. The Defense Committee was informed of this decision on June 5.
According to the regulations, the payment of the fine and the termination of the disciplinary process exclude any other sanction against Gerhartz. The DPA did not announce the amount of the fine imposed on the lieutenant general.
The Berlin prosecutor’s office stopped the investigation against Gerhartz in early May this year due to the leak of negotiations between Bundeswehr officers into the public domain. According to a representative of the prosecutor’s office, there were no suspicions against Gerhartz and there were no indications that “The accused acted intentionally”. “Any negligence may be subject to disciplinary law, but is not punishable as negligence.”summarized the representative of the prosecution.
Recall that in early March 2024, a recording of high-ranking German officers was published in which the technical possibility of secret deliveries of German Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine and attacks on the Crimean bridge was discussed.
The leak of conversations between German officers occurred during a web conference on the video communication application Webex. One of the senior officials involved in the conversation, Franke Graefe, used an unsecured connection for the conference while traveling to Singapore.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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