We’re big fans of the investigative journalism of Stern’s Hans-Martin Tillack, and have posted numerous translations of his work in the past. Here Tillack takes a look at some of Nord Stream’s odd partners and practices. Gerhard Schröder’s Company and the Sect By Hans-Martin Tillack New trouble for ex-Chancellor Gerhard Schröder’s pipeline company Nord Stream: The Gazprom subsidiary has gotten mixed up with a flamboyant Berlin entrepreneur who maintains contacts to the LaRouche sect and acts as the supervisory board chairman of a company that does not exist. Clearly, Manfred Boese is an important man. He has eight different stacks of business cards lined up on his desk. In GDR times, he was a prosecutor; today, the lawyer runs several companies and associations. Anybody who wants to visit him has to pass through the portico of Berlin’s splendid Palais am Festungsgraben, then take a right into Boese’s office, and then, for a start, wait half an hour. Her boss is in a conference with ministers from Russia, the secretary says.