BERLIN (AP) — Deutsche Bank AG co-chief executive Juergen Fitschen has acknowledged calling a senior German politician following a raid at the bank’s offices last week, and apologized in a newspaper interview printed Wednesday if the move had left the wrong impression.

Fitschen told the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung he wanted to “expressly apologize” if people thought he tried to exert political influence on a legal case.