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In his political career, Eduard
Lintner has focused on maintaining relations with the states of Latin America and the South Caucasus. As part of this activity, he was also the initiator of the Bundestag resolution to shape Germany's relations with the states of the South Caucasus. After he stopped
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in teaching of biology in public schools in Europe. Lintner denied supporting creationist theories and explained his voting behavior by saying that the dangers of creationism were greatly exaggerated in the text of the resolution and that with this resolution the
Council of Europe was improperly
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as a "dubious
Azerbaijan network" and made the headlines in the wake of the "Aserbaidschan-Affäre" lobbying scandal in the German Bundestag. Bank records show that Lintner received multiple payments through a branch of
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public prosecutor's office is investigating
Lintner on the initial suspicion of corruption; the police searched several offices and private premises in Germany and Belgium. Lintner's CDU parliamentary group colleague
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Lintner made the headlines as for voting against resolution 1580 (2007) in the Council of Europe. The resolution calls on the member states to actively counter the views expressed by
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in the 2009 elections, Lintner founded the "Society for the
Promotion of German-Azerbaijani Relations" based in Berlin and has been its sole managing partner ever since.
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between 2012 and 2014. Lintner, in turn, transferred large sums of money to pro-regime politicians in
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on 24 January 1991. From 27 August 1992, he was also the Federal Government's first drug commissioner. After the 1
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