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Pfahls, who spent five years on the run from German justice, has admitted accepting £1.3 million from a German-Canadian businessman in connection with several arms contracts.
Pfahls insisted, however, that he did nothing in return, and prosecutors dropped the main corruption charge against him after Kohl testified as a witness that Pfahls had no influence on a decision to deliver armoured vehicles to Saudi Arabia in 1991.
Investigations into the businessman, Karlheinz Schreiber, in the mid-1990s triggered a scandal that deepened with Kohl's admission that he had personally accepted off-the-books - and thus illegal - donations from supporters he has refused to name.
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