GERMANY - Bribes for refugee status

⁣Germany‘s Interior Minister Horst Seehofer has said that he won’t spare reputations in his efforts to get to the bottom of a scandal that has hit public trust in the asylum process What is the so-called ‘Bamf affair? ⁣The scandal centres around the Federal Office for Immigration and Refugees, which goes by the acronym BAMF The BAMF office in Bremen is accused of wrongfully granting asylum to over a thousand refugees between 2013 and 2016 who had their applications dismissed in other federal states