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Hamburg (dpa / lno) - The parliamentary committee of inquiry of the Hamburg citizenship on the cum-ex scandal has continued its work with organizational matters and planning.
In the second meeting of the body on Friday, the MPs decided, among other things, an application for a file and a decision on the selection and configuration of the working team.
The committee unanimously made the judge at the finance court, Claudio Kirch-Heim, its head.
The non-party lawyer stated that he had not yet been involved with the events surrounding the cum-ex scandal.
According to Chairman Mathias Petersen (SPD), the next committee meeting is expected to take place in March.
The task force and the parliamentary groups would need time to study the files that are expected to be available at the end of January.
The committee, which was set up on November 6th, is supposed to clarify the allegation that leading SPD politicians may exert influence on the tax treatment of the Hamburg Warburg Bank involved in the scandal.
The background to this are meetings between the then mayor and today's Federal Finance Minister Olaf Scholz (SPD) in 2016 and 2017 with Warburg co-owner Christian Olearius, against whom investigations were underway on suspicion of serious tax evasion in connection with cum-ex deals.
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Hamburg later allowed possible tax claims of 47 million euros to become statute-barred, and a further 43 million euros was only claimed after the Federal Ministry of Finance intervened.
The meetings had become known through entries in the diary of Olearius, which also suggested a close connection between bank representatives and the responsible tax officer.
Both Scholz and his successor in the town hall, Peter Tschentscher (SPD), who was Finance Senator at the time, have rejected all allegations in this context.
The parliamentary committee of inquiry into the cum-ex affair