Jörg Dornau, a member of parliament of the German state of Saxony from the far-right party “Alternative for Germany”, was fined for an undeclared business in Belarus – growing onions.
This is reported by Welt.
In June, Welt journalists published an investigation about Dornau, where they found that since October 2020 he has been a co-owner and director of a Belarusian agricultural enterprise. LLC “Tsibulka-Bel”.
The company of Dornau, who is the spokesman for agricultural policy of the AfD faction in Saxony and owns a farm, grows onions on several hundred hectares in the border region of Belarus near Poland and Lithuania.
In addition, according to Welt, the AfD politician secretly met several times with supporters of the Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko. He did not publicly report his meetings or business in Belarus.
The Presidium of the Saxon Parliament found that Dornau violated his obligation to disclose information in accordance with the law and imposed a fine of 20,862 euros on him. three times the monthly salary of a state deputy.
“Nobody can just go to dictatorial Belarus and start a farm there, especially no one from Germany,” commented the chairman of the Left Party faction in Saxony, Rico Gebhardt.
The media previously discovered that a member of the German far-right party “Alternative for Germany” Piotr Bystron may also have secretly visited Belarus at the end of 2022.
Prepared by: Nina Petrovich