After a search of the Stuttgart prosecutor’s office and the arrest of a judicial sergeant, investigators primarily targeted central locations. software be targeted by judicial authorities. The arrested sergeant and other suspected prosecutor’s employees are said to have been instigated to send data on the central prosecutor’s program to clients in exchange for money.
Apart from the sergeant, suspicion was also directed at a total of six employees or officials in the so-called support area. They work mainly in the office, the “secretariat” of the prosecutor’s office, said the head of the Heilbronn prosecutor’s office, senior prosecutor Frank Schwoerer. Together with Justice Minister Marion Gentges (CDU) and at the request of the SPD and FDP, he answered questions at the Standing Committee of the state parliament.
Disciplinary and exclusion procedures
Two alleged clients were also arrested. They are said to have bribed the sergeant, for whom Gentges said disciplinary proceedings have now begun. The other suspects were soon released.
It remains unclear who ordered at least four of them. “We currently have no information about the clients of this complex or the identities of the people who may have been the targets of this data leak,” Schwörer said. “We have just begun our investigation.”
The attack leads to the path
Investigators discovered the suspect and the data leak through an attack on a 23-year-old employee of a security company in Tamm last May. The man who was shot expressed suspicion that the two Dutch suspects may have been incited to shoot him, Schwörer said. The investigation into this alleged client then led, among others, to Sgt.
Software is the ultimate work platform
The web.sta software at the center of the data leak is used as a central working platform in all public prosecutors in Baden-Württemberg. It is used to manage criminal proceedings from start to finish. Employees can use it to create new cases, save files, keep track of deadlines, and create documents such as orders or invoices directly in the system. Exchanges with registers such as the Federal Central Register are also carried out through it.
Access to the platform is widespread, Schwoerer said. “In my office, all employees except the cleaning staff actually have access.”
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