Klaus Landowsky, former chairman of the

BERLIN, Germany: Klaus Landowsky, former chairman of the Berlin Hyp bank and former leader of the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) parliamentary fraction, arrives for the Berliner Bankgesellschaft trial on 29 July 2005 in Berlin. The major trial seeks links between bankers and politicians. The Berlin Hyp, a branch of the Berliner Bankgesellschaft, posted under Landowsky's leadership an enormous loss in the 1990ies due to disastrous investment in the property sector and bad management. Problems with the bank caused the breakup of the Social Democrat/Christian Democrat coalition governing the city in 2001. AFP PHOTO POOL/MICHAEL KAPPELER (Photo credit should read MICHAEL KAPPELER/AFP via Getty Images)