 He headed the Criminal Law Department of the Ministry of Justice in Saxony from 1993 to 1995 before becoming Senior Prosecutor in the Office of the General Prosecutor in Munich for a year.From 1996 to 1998 he was made Head of the Department fighting against organised crime, fraud and corruption.His first post outside Germany was in April 1998 when he was appointed Head of the Anti-Fraud Unit and Deputy Head of the Economics Department of the Office of the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina.