German president Wulff used a phone owned by somebody else while he was prime of lower Saxony

Well, its completly not obvious to me why he simply didnt buy one himself


Christian Wulff used during his time as prime of lower Saxony a portable which belonged to a firm of the Wulff-intimate Groenewold. A corresponding report of German welt.de was confirmed by Groenewold's lawyer Christian-Oliver Moser on friday questioned by FOCUS.


A contract was signed for temporary transition (something like a leasing contract I guess). Its dated 26.10.2005. According to the contract, Wulff will pay for the costs himself. "Wulff signed a transaction after incoming of the phone bill about the costs listed in it towards the account of Groenewold."


The contract for the Nokia phone ran according to Moser for a year. The bill sums for the timespan amount to 931 euro brutto. While the costs amounted 200 euros in 2 months, instead Wulff used the portable in the last months hardly and only paid the usage fee amounting to 20 euro.