germany a scandal over the improper handling of asylum requests is threatening to embroil chance langley americal she's now facing allegations she knew about problems at the country's refugee agency since early last year but failed to take action to rectify them a former head of the agency if you're going to this says he twice warned her about major problems within the agency including the heavies trained staff were under prosecutors are currently investigating claims agency officials in the city of braman accepted bribes to wade through more than one thousand asylum applications. i'm now joined by d.w. political correspondent rupert reader about rupert there are reports that child flying americal knew about the difficulties the refugee agency was facing was the situation here when what we have heard right now is that. knew about the overall situation at the office for migration and refugees but that doesn't mean that she actually knew about what was going on in bremen this is be have to make quite clear here but what we can say is that what was going on at braman was only made possible by the ov