“For most of the seven years he was locked up in a mental institution, reporting on his case was left to activists, bloggers and conspiracy theorists. But his face was plastered across virtually every major German newspaper on Wednesday after the Higher Regional Court of Nuremburg unexpectedly ordered his immediate release and granted him a new trial. Mollath, a 56-year-old former restorer of vintage cars, was committed against his will in 2006 after a court found him a danger to society. Mollath has long denied the allegations levied against him and said he was being unjustly persecuted for blowing the whistle on tax evasion at HypoVereinsbank.”
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