The 75-year-old former arms-industry lobbyist landed in Munich around 9:30 a.m. local time, and was taken to a jail in nearby Augsburg, where prosecutors accuse him of bribery and tax evasion.
At a news conference Monday, chief prosecutor Reinhard Nemetz said Schreiber will appear in court on Tuesday to have the arrest warrant against him read, and then a judge will decide whether to keep him in custody pending formal charges.
Nemetz said it had taken "too long, too long" to bring Schreiber back from Canada. When asked why he thought it had been such a protracted process, Nemetz replied, "Ask your Canadian officials please."
About 60 reporters attended the news conference in Augsburg, and the Schreiber saga is big news all over Germany, said the CBC’s Harvey Cashore, who was there and has been covering the story for several years.
"It is leading the [hourly news]. It is on the front page of the Augsburg paper here — two huge stories. You can't be in Germany and not know about the Schreiber story," said Cashore.
Schreiber, a dual German and Canadian citizen, was arrested in Canada in 1999 under a German warrant. He maintains the charges against him and his extradition from Canada are politically driven.
Allegations that Schreiber gave a cash donation in 1991 to the former treasurer of Kohl's Christian Democratic Union party, Walther Leisler Kiep, triggered a scandal that only deepened with Kohl's 1999 admission that he had personally accepted illegal donations from supporters. Kohl was Germany's chancellor from 1982 to 1998.
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