The Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) has in past been separated from several interpreters for violating obligation to neutrality. The authority did not cite an exact number. According to Federal Ministry, only 2017 cooperation with 30 interpreters "was terminated due to violations of code of conduct". This is a response from ministry to a question from left in Bundestag.

In addition, 2017 and 2018 or 2,100 interpreters were exempted in course of an extended quality assurance concept of operations for bamf, answer says. Interpreters who want to work for Federal office must prove a C1 language certificate for German language in most common target languages since summer of 2017. Because of this requirement, number of interpreters employed from around 7,500 last reduced to about 5,200, bamf shared with. The C1 level is expected to have a strong and profound knowledge of German language.

The Nuremberg authority pointed out that applicants since 1988 have to submit an extended police certificate for a job as a freelance interpreter and have to agree to a reliability check by security authorities. The review will be repeated after two years at latest. The missions also ensured that interpreters were constantly changing.

Official granted 1,200 asylum applications wrongly

On Friday it had become known that now suspended head of branch in Bremen should have granted asylum applications in about 1,200 cases wrongly. In addition to official, re are five or defendants, including an interpreter and three lawyers, according to Public Prosecutor's office.

The subject is unclear. According to information of Brunswick newspaper, staff might not have been concerned about money. On her Twitter account, woman repeatedly shared contributions from pro Asylum and association "Eziden Worldwide", paper reported.  The prosecutor's office is investigating woman and five or defendants for bribery and "gang-headed abuse of asylum application". In most cases, according to Bremen Prosecutor's office, it was Kurdish people to be Yazidi.

"Federal government takes accusations very seriously"

Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) wants to have Bremen incident checked thoroughly. "I will arrange an independent investigation next week," he said to ZDF magazine frontal 21. "I want to know if re are any system deficiencies that make such things possible." If y exist, bamf must be reformed.

This is a bad incident that is me. He has in past his cause, in years 2013 to 2016 ", said Seehofer during an appearance in front of CSU district associations of Upper Bavaria and Munich. He did not want to put employees of bamf under general suspicion: But apparently re seem to have been oblique developments.

As a consequence of accusations, parliamentary state secretary in Federal Ministry, Günter Krings (CDU), announced a review of procedures for asylum decisions. The federal government will take case as an opportunity to initiate a thorough and critical investigation. You take accusations very seriously.

Date Of Update: 22 April 2018, 12:02