Overview
- Coordinated raids on Thursday searched 49 sites in Germany, Spain, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Austria and Switzerland with about 400 officers, leading to Uwe Reppegather’s arrest on Ibiza.
- A Madrid judge later lifted his detention order, and Düsseldorf’s specialist ZeFin NRW unit says it has not received formal notice from Spain.
- A second suspect, reported as his brother Wolfgang, remains in custody in Germany under a European arrest warrant.
- Prosecutors are examining suspected bankruptcy crimes, fraud, breach of trust and bookkeeping offenses tied to his personal insolvency, with alleged losses in the high tens of millions.
- The probe follows the 2023 collapses of Reppegather and his Centrum group, when creditor claims reached about €1.6 billion, and police now face months of forensic review of seized data and assets.