Chancellor Scholz had already been questioned twice in the investigative committee of the Hamburg citizenship – now a new summons follows. This time it is about a protocol that has since been released.
- Chancellor Scholz had already been questioned twice in the investigative committee of the Hamburg citizenship – now a new subpoena follows. This time it is about a protocol that has since been released.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) has to testify a third time before the Parliamentary Investigative Committee of the Hamburg Citizenship (PUA) on the "Cum-Ex" scandal.
On the initiative of the CDU and the left, he was summoned again by the committee, as the representatives of the parliamentary groups, Richard Seelmaecker and Norbert Hackbusch, announced. You doubt the memory gaps claimed by Scholz in relation to meetings with the shareholders of the Warburg Bank involved in the "Cum-Ex" scandal.
The background to the new summons is a protocol of a finance committee meeting of the Bundestag in 2020, which was formerly classified as secret but has now been downgraded and which the Hamburg committee has now received.
"The minutes released by the Bundestag Finance Committee clearly show that Olaf Scholz lied," said Seelmaecker. "Contrary to what he said in the Hamburg investigative committee, Scholz could remember at least one meeting with the head of the Warburg Bank, Christian Olaerius."
Meeting with bankers: Scholz cannot remember the content
The members of the finance committee present at the meeting on July 1, 2020 were first heard by the PUA in front of the chancellor, Hackbusch said. "It's already difficult enough to take away Olaf Scholz's total amnesia – but these memory gaps become even more incredible if they apparently hadn't started in the finance committee in 2020."
Among other things, the PUA is to examine a possible influence of leading Hamburg SPD politicians on the tax treatment of the Warburg Bank in connection with "cum-ex" transactions. As Hamburg mayor, Scholz received the bank shareholders three times in 2016 and 2017 in the town hall.
Scholz had already been questioned in the investigative committee in August last year and in April 2021 and admitted to meeting with the bankers in both cases, but at the same time emphasized that he could not remember the content. But there was certainly no influence. (dpa/ari)
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