Status: 01/20/2023 2:24 p.m
Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) has to testify again before the committee of inquiry into the Cum-Ex affair about the Warburg Bank. The background is the alleged memory gaps from Scholz to his meetings with Warburg representatives when he was still the first mayor of Hamburg.
Olaf Scholz has already testified twice before the Parliamentary Investigative Committee (PUA) of the Hamburg Parliament and admitted that he had met with Warburg representatives. However, he cannot remember the specific content of the talks, said Scholz in spring 2021 and last summer in Hamburg. But the CDU and the left doubt that.
CDU accuses Scholz of lying
Because in 2020, Scholz had already answered questions in front of a Bundestag committee on the Warburg case. The previously secret protocol has now been released. “Scholz’s memory gaps had apparently not yet set in in 2020,” says Norbert Hackbusch from the left. Richard Seelmaecker from the CDU even thinks that the protocol clearly shows that Scholz lied. Milan Pein from the SPD says that the Bundestag protocol does not contradict Scholz’s statements in Hamburg.
Committee of Inquiry summons 18 members of the Bundestag
In addition to the Federal Chancellor, the PUA also summons all 18 members of the Bundestag who attended the 2020 session. It is not yet clear when it will be Olaf Scholz’s turn.
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