1. In 2017, it was revealed that Lintner had lobbied on behalf of the authoritarian regime in Azerbaijan and been involved in the Azerbaijani laundromat scandal, which was a complex money-laundering scheme used to pay off European politicians in an attempt to whitewash Azerbaijan's reputation abroad.
Eduard Lintner joined the CSU and the Junge Union in 1962, while still at school.
From 1972 to 1974 Eduard Lintner was elected member of the municipal council of Erlabrunn.
In 1999 Eduard Lintner became a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and the Western European Union.
Eduard Lintner was chairman of the Lower Franconia District Association of the Bavarian Red Cross until 2017 and has been its honorary member ever since.
In 2007 Eduard Lintner made the headlines as for voting against resolution 1580 in the Council of Europe.
Eduard Lintner denied supporting creationist theories and explained his voting behavior by saying that the dangers of creationism were greatly exaggerated in the text of the resolution and that with this resolution the Council of Europe was improperly attempting to intervene in the educational sovereignty of the German federal states.
Eduard Lintner has been actively lobbying for the government of Azerbaijan, which is known for serious human rights violations and heavy crackdown on opposition.
Bank records show that Eduard Lintner received multiple payments through a branch of Danske Bank in Estonia as part of an "Azerbaijani laundromat" money laundering scheme.
Eduard Lintner's organization received a total of 819,500 euros from front companies between 2012 and 2014.
Eduard Lintner, in turn, transferred large sums of money to pro-regime politicians in Germany and Belgium.