Overview
- Speaking on the podcast 'Des Isses!', Joey Kelly said the family maintained an undeclared bank account in Switzerland.
- He said the Kellys stored more than one million Deutsche Mark in coins on their Cologne houseboat and that he regularly carried the coins to the bank.
- Kelly claimed the band's peak saw 3.5 million German sales of 'Over the Hump' and annual turnover of about 120 million Deutsche Mark.
- He described wasteful outlays in the 1990s, citing private jets costing 30,000 to 40,000 Deutsche Mark that sometimes flew with only two passengers.
- Reporting notes that finances ran through Kel-Life GmbH, which Joey took over in 1999 and which was dissolved in November 2024.