Note: Institution M. apparently was a nickname given to Mr. Mauss by German officials during his several decade long work as the favorite off the books agent for several German governments and the German Federales.
A couple of the many aliases used by Mr. Mauss showed up on a CD of foreign account holders in the tiny country of Liechtenstein, bought - ironically undercover - by the German state of North Rhine Westphalia several years ago.
Mr. Mauss' defense in the trial in September 2016 was that the money was legitimate and was serving humanitarian causes.
Brushing off this statement as a lame excuse by a tax dodger was easy, but in yet another twist in the life of a man who would give Jimmy 007 Bond a run for his money, former minister of the German Chancellery Mr. Schmidbauer (CDU) confirmed the existence of a secret fund used by Mr. Mauss to finance his operations.
Following the fall of the Berlin Wall, Mr. Mauss officially no longer worked for the German government, although the minister acknowledges unspecified subsequent "cooperation". Mauss claims that the money in dispute over unpaid taxes is in fact this secret fund.
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According to Mr. Schmidbauer, the fund was called "international reserve". Not only was it not controlled by the German government, the money in the fund came from a number of different governments, including the U.S. government.
Mr. Mauss, now 77 years old, continues to defend himself saying "I have always fought crime", there is nothing illegal about the funds.
Compared to Mr. Mauss, Bond comes across as a trigger-happy drunk, a very bad driver who has crashed countless cars.
And unlike the dandy, Mr. Mauss has a website here, where you can find fascinating information: All operations carried out worldwide over several decades, in Europe, South America, Asia and the Middle East, have always been effected in cooperation with German governmental agencies and authorities, under their direction, and with their full collaboration.
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Even the L.A. Times acknowledged his humanitarian work when it reported on Mr. Mauss problems in Colombia: The German private investigator is known to some as a humanitarian who helps free foreign executives kidnapped by Colombian guerrillas. But police allege he is really a party to the plots.
He was fully exonerated by the Colombian authorities, and he managed single-handedly to get peace negotiations started between the Colombian government and the ELN guerrillas.
There have been a couple of German documentaries about Mr. Mauss, but one thing is for sure: if he had been American or British, you would all know his name from a Hollywood blockbuster.
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