Why did the Hamburg tax office for large companies want to forego a tax refund from Warburg Bank's cum-ex transactions, which were already more than dodgy at the time?
Questions about it remain painful for Olaf Scholz.
The social democrat in the chancellery was the first mayor of Hamburg at the time and met several times with representatives of the private bank.
Unfortunately, Scholz, who likes to boast of his intellectual abilities, suffers from amnesia in this matter.
Of all things, he can't remember the conversations he had with the co-owners of the Warburg Bank.
But that was not always so.
After the Bundestag minutes of the meeting of the finance committee were freed from strict confidentiality requirements, one can read that Scholz confirmed what Warburg banker Christian Olearius recorded in his diary.
So much memory was still there – unlike later.
The Union faction wants to question the chancellor again.
Does that help?
The story is always questionable.