[5] Clemens Tönnies obtained public funds from the German tax administration via CumEx deals.

[6][7] The Tönnies subsidiaries Böklunder, Plumrose and Karl Könecke Fleischwarenfabrik engaged in price fixing and were fined 128 million euros by the Federal Cartel Office.

[10] In June 2020, government-mandated mass testing for SARS-CoV-2 found that at least 1,500 of 7,000 workers at the main Tönnies plant in Rheda-Wiedenbrück were infected.

[11] On 18 June 2020, parents and children held a demonstration in front of Tönnies' house, since due to the danger of infection, schools and kindergartens had been closed.

[19] Clemens Tönnies has sued a camera team, which led the German TV show Akte [de] to make an episode about how he deals with critics.