Prosecutors in Hanover have dropped a criminal public corruption investigation into local police officers who accepted free meals of currywurst from a training instructor.
The investigation had targeted 17 employees from Hanover's Central Police Directorate (ZPD) under suspicion of accepting the free sausages soaked in curry ketchup.
Currywurst is a beloved fast-food dish in much of Germany.
A spokeswoman for the local public prosecutor's offce in Hanover confirmed to dpa that they had ditched the currywurst corruption case. She told Hanover's Allgemeine newspaper that there wasn't sufficient reason to suspect a crime.
The initial suspicion from prosecutors was that the instructor may have paid for the currywurst meals in hopes of getting positive reviews from his students.