According to allegations, the AfD MP Bystron is said to have accepted money from a pro-Russian internet platform. He denies this. Now documents have been found on him, for example gold bars. There is a reason for this too – they are said to belong to his mother.
According to “Welt”, the police found serial numbers of several gold bars, cash in envelopes and bank statements from the Czech Republic and Liechtenstein in a Berlin home belonging to AfD member of the Bundestag Petr Bystron. Bystron, who is being investigated on initial suspicion of bribery and money laundering, is said to have confirmed the findings to the newspaper. According to this, the majority of the valuables belong to his mother.
The German Press Agency asked Bystron for a statement in writing on Monday evening. However, this request remained unanswered as of Tuesday morning. Bystron is in second place on the AfD’s list for the European elections.
The Munich Public Prosecutor’s Office, which did not want to comment on the “Welt” report, is investigating Bystron and has therefore already searched several properties in the past week, including his parliamentary office.
A Czech newspaper had reported that Bystron may have received money from the pro-Russian Internet platform “Voice of Europe” (VoE). However, the member of parliament for the Munich-North constituency denies this.
According to “Welt”, during a search of Bystron’s home in the Berlin district of Wannsee, serial numbers of gold bars weighing 500 grams and one kilo were discovered, among other things. “I keep the documents on the physical gold and my mother’s accounts because I have been appointed by the court as her guardian,” Bystron told “Welt”. “My mother owned a dental clinic in Switzerland for many years, acquired everything legally and I keep the evidence. This also includes the old extracts from the Liechtenstein account, although this has been closed for a long time.”
Bystron only assigns himself to the account in the Czech Republic, for which extracts were also found: “The account transactions on my Czech account are all completely transparent, because they relate to rental income and expenses from real estate in the Czech Republic, which have been owned by me and my wife for over belong to twenty years.”