Memorandum

The Matter of Spain/Schrimpf/Ley

At the end of 1995 and the beginning of 1996 negotiations were undertaken about Mr. Schrimpf’s liabilities towards the companies Hans Seiger Bauelemente and Seiger GmbH in liquidation.
No information about the whereabouts of the bills of exchange deposited earlier were available.
It was agreed that Mr. Schrimpf should pay Mr. Johannes Seiger DM 15’000.–, this was done in January 1996 in the presence of Mr. Seiger, Mr. Schrimpf and Mr. Löwendick.

In October 1996 a favour bill amounting to DM 400’000.– was issued to Mr. Schrimpf due to disagreements he had with the fiscal office of Lippstadt concerning taxes. The actual payment on this was DM 40’000.–.
This action was in preparation for the attempt to get inside information about the Principality of Sealand.
A criminal property deal in Gran Canaria was going to be arranged by Mr. Schrimpf and Mr. Ley, however, it was refused by the undersigned. In November/December 1996 Mr. Schrimpf and Mr. Ley put their true intentions on the table.
On account of his alleged excellent connections to Spanish lawyers and members of the Government they offered the following deal:
Mr. Schrimpf assured us on behalf of his contacts in Spain that these could in a short time obtain diplomatic recognition by the Spanish Government. Condition:
1. Mr. Miguel Palacios Masso will be president of the Spanish branch of the Sealand State Bank.
2. Against payment of DM 250’000.– 50 diplomatic passports for Spanish civil servants should be issued. Upon this Mr. Schrimpf and Mr. Ley paid DM 20’000.–, DM 5’000.–, DM 4’000.– and DM 2’000.– in cash. A further larger payment was to be made by the end of December 96/beginning of January 97.
These agreed payments, however, were never made, instead disclosure of the actual situation of Sealand was demanded. Upon this relevant correspondence by the Secretary of State and film material (10-year celebration, Alex Lettland and Mr. Seiger private) was handed over.
As could be surmised information about the financial situation of the undersigned was also requested, it was depicted by the undersigned as rather tense, which seemed to suit Mr. Schrimpf and Mr. Ley well. In several conversations the imminent payment of the 250’000.– was repeatedly announced and that the president of the Spanish branch of the Sealand State Bank in Madrid should be a Spaniard.

As could be guessed, after they knew the documents concerning Sealand the real intentions of Mr. Schrimpf and Mr. Ley were expressed. Mr. Schrimpf tried fraudulently to obtain full power of attorney as representative of the Prime Minister. To this aim, one morning Mr. Ley was at the door, announcing “big money” to be imminent, also presenting on a computer diskette a power of attorney document already prepared in Spanish which he wanted to be signed. The altered German translation seemed harmless enough and did not show the true content of the Spanish Original. Since we already suspected – as mentioned above – the fraudulent intentions of these gentlemen, we had the Spanish text translated again by Mrs. Bourgos, a Spanish lady in our neighbourhood. It became clear that the important points had knowingly and intentionally been left out in Mr. Ley’s translation. Thus our suspicions had been confirmed, that they planned to use the powers of attorney as well as the documents for criminal purposes and to the detriment of the Prime Minister and the Principality of Sealand.
When we told Mr. Schrimpf and Mr. Ley that this kind of wilful deceit was not right, they told us that the matter now was definitely closed.
Mr. Schrimpf returned the documentation and confirmed that no copies, videos or other reproductions had been made of the documents.

After an approximately further three weeks Mr. Ley surprisingly called and asked, whether there was still interest in the Spain business. Further talks ensued, in which Mr. Ley told the undersigned that Mr. Schrimpf was out of the deal, which in the end led to a new version of the fraudulent machinations.
In place of Mr. Schrimpf Mr. Ley now tried to get the power of attorney by dishonest means. When this, too, was thwarted by us, Mrs. Ley now took the fraudulent machinations over from Mr. Schrimpf and her husband and revealed herself as the person with the pertinent contacts in Spain.
Now the tried to usurp three key positions in the government concept to be formulated anew:
Foreign Ministry: Mr. Ley!; Ministry of the Interior: Francisco Trujillo Ruiz; Ministry of Justice: Miguel Palacios Masso; Ministry for Culture: Mrs. Ley!
The undersigned had in a personal conversation at Bad Westernkotten in the house of the Leys unmistakably stated that key positions in the government could never be occupied by “unknown quantities”, which in the end would only lead to a take-over of power according to the constitution. By dealings which can be further described, Mr. Weber and Mr. Hausen were now confronted with the whole affair.

As a result of hour-long discussion over several days, the alleged confidant of Mr. Seiger, Mr. Hausen, should now be inveigled by the promise of large sums of money to obtain the said power of attorney with the same content as above, which finally would lead to the sale of 300 passports @ DM 10’000.– to interested parties already in line. It further became clear that through the State Bank moneys from South-American countries should be laundered (obviously drug and arms money). For this Sealand was to get 20% of the laundered money.
As Mr. Hausen, the alleged - confidant- , also failed to get the power of attorney, a further discussion between Schrimpf, Ley, Hausen and Weber ensued. According to Mr. Hausen, Mr. Ley called to Spain during this conversation and told 'Paco', that with Seiger no deals were possible, and that they would tempt Seiger to go to Spain, where he was to be 'delivered to the scaffold'.
They further discussed that a certain Mr. Bruno, employee of the company Ley & Schrimpf, could handle the whole affair.
During these talks Mr. Schrimpf revealed that the complete know-how from 1980 concerning the matter of PU - which led to losses amounting to millions in the Seiger company - from the beginning had been based on fraud. This know-how never existed.
These statements were confirmed by Mr. Hausen in the presence of Mr. Seiger and Mr. Löwendick.

On this day, February 14, 1997, the undersigned had proposed a further discussion to Mr. Schrimpf and Mr. Ley.

Rheda-Wiedenbrück
February 14, 1997
Signed: Seiger & Löwendick
  

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