http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/02/top-german-geoscientist-fired-after-police-raid-faces-allegations-financial-crimes

Reinhard Hüttl was dismissed last month by the German Research Centre for Geosciences.

Reinhard Hüttl had risen to the very top of German science. The soil scientist was head of the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), where he commanded a staff of more than 1200 and a €95 million budget. He was vice president of acatech, Germany’s engineering-focused national academy, and vice president of the nation’s most prestigious state academy, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW). His advice even reached Chancellor Angela Merkel—for example as a government adviser with the Council on Bioeconomy.