Europe’s largest brothel: Pascha boss accused of money laundering

Cologne (NRW) – Apparently no boss in the Cologne brothel Pascha has a clean slate. Now brothel boss André Wienstroth is also being investigated. He is accused of money laundering amounting to millions.

On Thursday, the Federal Police and the Public Prosecutor’s Office were in Europe’s largest brothel raided and in the eleven-storey building on Hornstrasse in Köln (NRW) searched for evidence related to the sale of the Pascha property.

As BILD has now learned, the campaign is no longer just against the alleged mastermind of the smuggling gang who are said to have sold residence permits for Germany to wealthy Chinese. Now brothel boss Wienstroth and the managing director of the real estate company, which is registered in the land register as the owner of the high-rise, are also in the investigators’ sights.

Wienstroth is said to be the boss of a company of smugglers’ lawyers

The alleged smuggling bosses Claus B. (43) and Johannes D. (46) are said to 2021 about the sale of the Pascha which was to be sold to the Chinese investor H. for eleven million euros.

In order to complete this deal, the lawyers Claus B. and Johannes D. are said to have founded several companies. Pascha boss Wienstroth is said to have become the managing director of one of these companies.

About this H. is said to have then acquired the brotheltransferred a total of six million euros. Then the transfer of the remaining sum was apparently stopped by a bank in Hong Kong.

That is why the lawyer Claus B. is said to have obtained the missing money in Germany by depositing it with a Cologne bank received a loan of five million euros. A recently founded front company is said to have been registered as the official owner of the property.

To Brothel The gang is said to have spent four million euros on the extensive renovation. Investigators believe that the money came from smuggling wealthy foreigners. Pascha boss Wienstroth is said to have received part of the money. He is also said to have known where the money came from.

When asked by BILD, André Wienstroth did not want to comment on the allegations.