THE SELTMANN OPERATION

Executive Summary

A docu­men­ted case of struc­tu­ral ille­ga­li­ty, state‑enabled iden­ti­ty mani­pu­la­ti­on, and the emer­gence of right‑wing ideo­lo­gy within German institutions.

This dos­sier expo­ses a recur­ring pat­tern within German sta­te insti­tu­ti­ons in which legal obli­ga­ti­ons are sys­te­ma­ti­cal­ly igno­red, con­tra­dic­to­ry iden­ti­ty data is accept­ed wit­hout scru­ti­ny, and sta­te action ali­gns not with sta­tu­to­ry law but with the inte­rests of a sin­gle indi­vi­du­al: Uwe Seltmann.

Across cri­mi­nal inves­ti­ga­ti­ons, civil pro­cee­dings, finan­cial super­vi­si­on, and insol­ven­cy law, the same struc­tu­re repro­du­ces its­elf: the pro­tec­tion of a dual iden­ti­ty, the con­ce­al­ment of finan­cial ori­g­ins, and the exclu­si­on of a foreign‑born entre­pre­neur who deman­ded accountability.

The evi­dence pre­sen­ted here demons­tra­tes that the­se are not iso­la­ted errors, but mani­fes­ta­ti­ons of a deeper ideo­lo­gi­cal shift within sta­te struc­tures — a shift in which law is sub­or­di­na­ted to poli­ti­cal and ideo­lo­gi­cal motives.

Introduction 

The Foundational Breach

When sta­te aut­ho­ri­ties cea­se to act in accordance with the law, it is not mere­ly an indi­vi­du­al case that is affec­ted, but the very foun­da­ti­on of the rule of law its­elf. This beco­mes evi­dent when­ever a dis­pu­te ari­ses bet­ween two par­ties: in such situa­tions, the jus­ti­ce sys­tem is obli­ga­ted to inves­ti­ga­te fair­ly, objec­tively, and in strict adhe­rence to sta­tu­to­ry requi­re­ments. Yet when, across mul­ti­ple pro­cee­dings and through various insti­tu­ti­ons, legal stan­dards are sys­te­ma­ti­cal­ly dis­re­gard­ed, the pro­cess can no lon­ger be descri­bed as lawful. It beco­mes ideo­lo­gi­cal. It beco­mes poli­ti­cal. It beco­mes structural.

The Recurring Pattern

This dos­sier docu­ments a recur­ring pat­tern that repro­du­ces its­elf across cri­mi­nal law, civil law, finan­cial super­vi­si­on, and insol­ven­cy pro­cee­dings — always with the same out­co­me: the pro­tec­tion of Uwe Seltmann’s dual iden­ti­ty, the con­ce­al­ment of his finan­cial sources, and the pre­ser­va­ti­on of the net­work that dis­se­mi­na­ted DOPiX world­wi­de, kept German cor­po­ra­ti­ons finan­ci­al­ly afloat, and simul­ta­neous­ly eli­mi­na­ted the aut­hor of this dos­sier from the eco­no­mic land­scape due to her Albanian ori­gin and her for­mer fashion busi­ness — becau­se she did not fit the city’s image and becau­se she deman­ded accountability.

The Break with Logic

As the legal phi­lo­so­pher Ulrich Klug obser­ved in 1960, legal sci­ence can only exist whe­re sta­te action fol­lows the norms of logic. “Without sub­mis­si­on to the rules of logic, no meaningful dis­cus­sion is pos­si­ble.” When aut­ho­ri­ties fail to exami­ne con­tra­dic­tions, igno­re sta­tu­to­ry duties, or refu­se to eva­lua­te evi­dence, they depart from the realm of law and enter the realm of ideo­lo­gy. The Seltmann Operation demons­tra­tes pre­cis­e­ly this depar­tu­re: sta­te action was not gui­ded by law, but by the pro­tec­tion of one individual.

The Conflicting Identities

The case files 212 Js 11552320 and 137 Js 116421 con­tain two con­flic­ting sets of iden­ti­ty data ari­sing from iden­ti­ty checks under §163 StPO and §152(2) StPO. A sin­gle per­son can­not simul­ta­neous­ly pos­sess two birth­places, two iden­ti­ties, and two legal roles. Yet the aut­ho­ri­ties accept­ed the­se con­tra­dic­tions wit­hout clarification.

The Financial Contradictions

Uwe Seltmann — deve­lo­per and cen­tral figu­re in the glo­bal expan­si­on of DOPiX through IBM part­ner­ships and the sale of the soft­ware to NEOPOST S.A. in France — is repor­ted as the foun­der and owner of icon Systemhaus. The acqui­si­ti­on of icon Systemhaus was in fact car­ri­ed out by Neopost France, as publicly repor­ted. Whether the con­tract sub­mit­ted by Seltmann to inves­ti­ga­tors refers to this acqui­si­ti­on remains unclear, as the docu­ment lacks both nota­ri­zed cer­ti­fi­ca­ti­on and signa­tures. Without the decisi­ve page that vali­da­tes the con­tract and pro­ves the ori­gin of the funds — a page the poli­ce neither repla­ced nor reques­ted — the source of the money remains unproven.

The Forty‑Two Accounts

The “sale” of DOPiX alo­ne gene­ra­ted mil­li­ons of euros, all depo­si­ted into a sin­gle account held exclu­si­ve­ly in Uwe Seltmann’s name. According to the BaFin report of 8 January 2021, the­re are forty‑two bank accounts asso­cia­ted with his name. Yet inqui­ries were made into only two accounts: the pri­va­te account was, as the poli­ce repor­ted ver­ba­tim on 7 January 2021, “not eva­lua­ted,” and the busi­ness account inquiry was with­drawn becau­se it was dee­med “unneces­sa­ry,” as sta­ted by the Stuttgart Police Headquarters.

The Constructed Insolvency

Despite clear indi­ca­tors of docu­ment for­gery ari­sing from the dual iden­ti­ty — inclu­ding a ten‑digit ID num­ber despi­te the sta­tu­to­ry nine‑digit stan­dard, an incon­sis­tent place of issu­an­ce, and a birth­place that does not match the actu­al one — the poli­ce made no record of the­se dis­crepan­ci­es. The inves­ti­ga­ti­on was ter­mi­na­ted, and Uwe Seltmann was never ente­red into the web.sta data­ba­se as a suspect. This allo­wed him and his asso­cia­tes to pur­sue the exclu­si­on of the fashion entre­pre­neur through a debt‑collection pro­ce­du­re in which the judi­cia­ry manu­al­ly assi­gned an att­or­ney as the aut­ho­ri­zed reci­pi­ent of the court noti­ce, after the elec­tro­nic sys­tem flag­ged an error becau­se the att­or­ney did not match the legal form of the respondent.

The pri­va­te and com­mer­cial loans used against the entre­pre­neur did not ser­ve to finan­ce a busi­ness but to con­s­truct its insol­ven­cy. The imme­dia­te repay­ment of the loan, the mixing of pri­va­te and busi­ness funds, and the absence of eco­no­mic ratio­na­le cor­re­spond to clas­sic indi­ca­tors of money laun­de­ring. Capital was not deploy­ed as invest­ment, but as a tool of con­trol and exclu­si­on. The insol­ven­cy admi­nis­tra­tor and cre­di­tors — IKK clas­sic and the Berlin‑Mitte/Tiergarten tax office — crea­ted an insol­ven­cy pro­cee­ding built on arti­fi­ci­al asset pover­ty by ensu­ring that no tax returns were filed. No tax return means no reco­gni­zed assets, no insol­ven­cy estate, and thus “asset pover­ty.” This arti­fi­ci­al pover­ty is fur­ther evi­den­ced by the fact that no claims — inclu­ding one rai­sed by an att­or­ney who­se com­plaint was for­ward­ed by the Stuttgart Bar Association to the General Prosecutor’s Office — were ack­now­led­ged. The inves­ti­ga­ti­on las­ted two years, mir­ro­ring the dura­ti­on of the insol­ven­cy pro­cee­dings. Immediately after the case was clo­sed, the att­or­ney admit­ted that he had “for­got­ten” to invoice his ser­vices, despi­te the insol­ven­cy admi­nis­tra­tor repea­ted­ly clai­ming to have spo­ken with him and that all invoices had been sett­led. The att­or­ney still did not pay after the insol­ven­cy case was clo­sed, despi­te con­ti­nuous demands, while pro­se­cu­tors argued the­re had been no intent — only “for­getful­ness.”

The Structural Dimension

The Seltmann Operation is not an iso­la­ted inci­dent, nor is it a chain of errors — and the chain does not end here.

The Political Implications

It is a docu­men­ted exam­p­le of how sta­te pro­ce­du­res — inde­pen­dent of one ano­ther — repro­du­ce the same struc­tu­re, acting not accor­ding to the law, but accor­ding to the law of Uwe Seltmann. There can be no talk of rule of law whe­re sta­te action is not gui­ded by sta­tu­te and con­sti­tu­ti­on. Judicial decis­i­ons and pro­se­cu­to­ri­al assess­ments con­s­truct the nar­ra­ti­ve that the insol­ven­cy resul­ted from incom­pe­tence rather than exclu­si­on. And when the aut­hor sought to expo­se the truth of the money in her 2022 book The Truth of Money, phy­si­ci­ans with­drew the Thyroxin medi­ca­ti­on that had repla­ced her remo­ved thy­ro­id for ten years. Had her father not died in December 2023, organ fail­ure and a myxe­de­ma coma would have fol­lo­wed — and the mat­ter would have remain­ed buried forever.

Conclusion

This is not opi­ni­on. It is docu­men­ted right‑wing ideo­lo­gy embedded within sta­te struc­tures. The docu­ments pro­ve it. They appear both within the text and in full at the end of this dos­sier. Behind the sce­nes, struc­tures have been crea­ted that shift Germany to the right and prepa­re the ground for this deve­lo­p­ment.
Germany’s right‑wing ideo­lo­gy is not emer­ging. It is alre­a­dy in power — not only through the rise of the far‑right par­ty Alternative for Germany (AfD), but through govern­ments and coali­ti­ons across all parties.

Key Findings

• Dual iden­ti­ties accept­ed as lawful

German aut­ho­ri­ties docu­men­ted two con­tra­dic­to­ry iden­ti­ties for the same indi­vi­du­al — inclu­ding dif­fe­rent birth­places, ID num­bers, and legal roles — and pro­ces­sed both wit­hout clarification.

• Financial ori­g­ins remain­ed unex­ami­ned and con­cea­led through hal­ted investigations

Authorities issued no com­pre­hen­si­ve requests for bank infor­ma­ti­on, exami­ned only a sin­gle account wit­hout eva­lua­ting it, and left both the ori­gin and the volu­me of the funds unex­plai­ned. With the ter­mi­na­ti­on of the inves­ti­ga­ti­ons, all finan­cial incon­sis­ten­ci­es — inclu­ding the unve­ri­fied source of the money — remain­ed undisclosed.

• Indicators of docu­ment for­gery ignored

A ten‑digit ID num­ber (despi­te the sta­tu­to­ry nine‑digit stan­dard), incon­sis­tent issu­an­ce data, and a birth­place that does not match the actu­al one were never recor­ded or investigated.

• State action ali­gned with one indi­vi­du­al, not the law

Across cri­mi­nal, civil, finan­cial, and insol­ven­cy pro­cee­dings, insti­tu­ti­ons repro­du­ced the same struc­tu­re: pro­tec­ting Uwe Seltmann, con­ce­al­ing finan­cial ori­g­ins, and exclu­ding the foreign‑born entre­pre­neur who deman­ded accountability.

• Evidence of ideo­lo­gi­cal influence within sta­te structures

The sys­te­ma­tic dis­re­gard for sta­tu­to­ry duties, logic, and evi­dence demons­tra­tes a struc­tu­ral shift in which sta­te action fol­lows ideo­lo­gi­cal moti­ves rather than con­sti­tu­tio­nal or legal standards.

Inside the Documents

This inves­ti­ga­ti­on is based on ori­gi­nal case files, iden­ti­ty records, BaFin reports, poli­ce cor­re­spon­dence, and court docu­ments obtai­ned over seve­ral years.
Below is a cura­ted sel­ec­tion of key excerp­ts that illus­tra­te the struc­tu­ral incon­sis­ten­ci­es docu­men­ted in the dos­sier.
The full docu­ments appear in the Investigative Edition, the Document Package, and the Print Edition.

Document Excerpt: Conflicting Identity Records

Document Excerpt: Identity Record (Case 212 Js 11552320)

Excerpt from inves­ti­ga­ti­on file, Vol. 2, p. 80. The Stuttgart Prosecutor’s Office offi­ci­al­ly recor­ded the suspect’s birth­place as “Korb” for finan­cial investigations.

Document Excerpt: Identity Record (Case 137 Js 116421)

Excerpt from inves­ti­ga­ti­on file 137 Js 116421, Vol. 3, Part 1, p. 1. The cri­mi­nal com­plaint for coer­ci­on lists the suspect’s birth­place as “Waiblingen.”

BaFin Inquiry – Account Matches

The BaFin inquiry iden­ti­fied a total of 42 bank accounts across mul­ti­ple insti­tu­ti­ons. The lar­gest clus­ter — 26 accounts — was repor­ted by Landesbank Baden‑Württemberg. The docu­ment excerpt below shows this sec­tion of the inquiry.

Document Excerpt: BaFin Inquiry – Account Matches (LBBW, 26 Accounts)

Excerpt from BaFin inquiry results dated 8 January 2021, issued in respon­se to a request from inves­ti­ga­ti­on file 212 Js 11552320 (Stuttgart Prosecutor’s Office), Vol. 2, pp. 86–104. The Landesbank Baden‑Württemberg repor­ted 26 account matches — the lar­gest clus­ter within the total of 42 iden­ti­fied accounts

Money Flow – The 24 June 2016 Transfers

The finan­cial records reve­al how the account struc­tures iden­ti­fied in the BaFin inquiry inter­sect direct­ly with high‑value trans­fers that were never exami­ned by investigators.

On 24 June 2016, a total of €11,649,231.29 was trans­fer­red out of Send Easy GmbH:
€2,296,731.50 to a pri­va­te account belon­ging to Uwe Seltmann, and €9,352,499.79 to a cor­po­ra­te account of the for­mer Icon Holding GmbH, now asso­cia­ted with USN Global GmbH.

According to the poli­ce report, Seltmann had sold his com­pa­ny Icon Systemhaus in 2016 and gene­ra­ted a pro­fit of appro­xi­m­ate­ly €11 mil­li­on — an amount that clo­se­ly mir­rors the trans­fers recor­ded on 24 June 2016.

The pri­va­te account that recei­ved the €2,296,731.50 was lis­ted in the poli­ce inquiry request but was never eva­lua­ted — even though, accor­ding to the BaFin report, it is one of 30 pri­va­te accounts held by Seltmann. The remai­ning accounts are busi­ness accounts.

The cor­po­ra­te account that recei­ved the €9,352,499.79 appears in the BaFin report as one of six USN Global GmbH accounts. The poli­ce report expli­cit­ly sta­tes that “USN Global GmbH was pre­vious­ly cal­led Icon Holding,” con­fir­ming the cor­po­ra­te con­ti­nui­ty bet­ween the enti­ty recei­ving the funds and the com­pa­ny iden­ti­fied in the BaFin inquiry.

Under the­se cir­cum­s­tances, the pro­se­cu­ti­on can­not cla­im that the­re is “no cri­mi­nal rele­van­ce” when mil­li­ons of euros flow through accounts flag­ged in a BaFin inquiry, while both pri­va­te and busi­ness accounts remain unevaluated.

Document Excerpt: Bank Transfer – 24 June 2016 

Excerpt from bank trans­fer records dated 24 June 2016. Send Easy GmbH trans­fer­red €2,296,731.50 to the subject’s pri­va­te account — one of 30 pri­va­te accounts iden­ti­fied in the BaFin report and never eva­lua­ted by inves­ti­ga­tors — and €9,352,499.79 to the for­mer Icon Holding GmbH account, now asso­cia­ted with USN Global GmbH.

BaFin Inquiry: USN Global GmbH (6 Accounts)

Excerpt from BaFin inquiry results dated 8 January 2021. Six account matches were iden­ti­fied for USN Global GmbH, the suc­ces­sor enti­ty to Icon Holding GmbH. The €9,352,499.79 trans­fer of 24 June 2016 was direc­ted to one of the­se accounts, indi­ca­ting that addi­tio­nal funds may have flowed through the remai­ning five accounts — con­tra­dic­ting the prosecution’s cla­im of “no cri­mi­nal relevance.”

Corporate Structure – Icon Holding GmbH → USN Global GmbH

The poli­ce docu­ments pro­vi­de a direct con­fir­ma­ti­on of the cor­po­ra­te suc­ces­si­on bet­ween Icon Holding GmbH and USN Global GmbH.

The poli­ce money‑laundering report expli­cit­ly sta­tes that “USN Global GmbH was pre­vious­ly cal­led Icon Holding.” This direct ack­now­led­ge­ment by inves­ti­ga­tors con­firms the cor­po­ra­te con­ti­nui­ty bet­ween the enti­ty that recei­ved €9,352,499.79 on 24 June 2016 and the com­pa­ny appearing with six account matches in the BaFin inquiry. The hand­writ­ten poli­ce anno­ta­ti­on on the trans­fer docu­ment rein­forces this link, mar­king the Icon Holding account with the note “USN Global.” Together, the­se offi­ci­al records estab­lish that the funds flowed into a com­pa­ny struc­tu­re that inves­ti­ga­tors them­sel­ves iden­ti­fied as the suc­ces­sor to Icon Holding GmbH.

Document Excerpt: Police Report – Corporate Succession and Account Match

Excerpt from the poli­ce money‑laundering report. Investigators sta­te that “USN Global GmbH was pre­vious­ly cal­led Icon Holding” and list the same account num­ber that appears on the €9,352,499.79 trans­fer of 24 June 2016, con­fir­ming both cor­po­ra­te and account continuity.

Investigative Findings – Police Financial Inquiry (13 January 2021)

The poli­ce financial‑investigation memo dated 13 January 2021 reve­als that the inquiry into the pri­va­te account which recei­ved €2,296,731.50 on 24 June 2016 was never eva­lua­ted. The memo sta­tes that “no cri­mi­nal­ly rele­vant cir­cum­s­tances could be iden­ti­fied,” even though the account was not exami­ned at all. According to the BaFin report, this account is one of 30 pri­va­te accounts held by Seltmann.

The same memo notes that the inquiry into the cor­po­ra­te account — the USN Global GmbH account that recei­ved €9,352,499.79 — was with­drawn on 21 January 2021, despi­te the memo its­elf being dated 13 January. This chro­no­lo­gi­cal incon­sis­ten­cy rai­ses ques­ti­ons about the accu­ra­cy and com­ple­ten­ess of the inves­ti­ga­ti­ve documentation.

By limi­ting their inqui­ries to only two accounts and fai­ling to eva­lua­te eit­her of them, inves­ti­ga­tors effec­tively shiel­ded the remai­ning 40 accounts iden­ti­fied in the BaFin report from scru­ti­ny. As a result, poten­ti­al addi­tio­nal inco­me streams and finan­cial move­ments remain undisclosed.

Document Excerpt: Police Financial Inquiry – 13 January 2021

Excerpt from the poli­ce financial‑investigation memo dated 13 January 2021. Investigators sta­te that the pri­va­te account recei­ving €2,296,731.50 was “not eva­lua­ted,” and that the inquiry into the USN Global account recei­ving €9,352,499.79 was with­drawn, lea­ving more than 40 BaFin‑identified accounts unexamined.