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Potsdam (dpa / bb) - The Corona Investigation Committee in the Brandenburg State Parliament wants to focus on white-collar crime in its first substantive meeting in January.

According to information from the German Press Agency for the gathering of evidence, Finance Minister Katrin Lange and Economics Minister Jörg Steinbach (both SPD) are to be questioned.

Representatives from public prosecutors and the investment bank ILB are also expected.

Then, among other things, the fraud with Corona emergency aid should be investigated.

The committee set the course for the schedule for the first half of 2021 behind closed doors on Friday.

The AfD parliamentary group enforced it in September.

She wants to question whether the encroachments on freedom were proportionate and have helped to limit the spread of the virus.

According to the previous plans, the committee wants to shed light on not only crime, but also the effects of pandemics and crisis policy on the economy, the procurement of information, the strategy for action and the effects on the health of citizens.

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Whether the body will be ready by June is open.

The other groups are opposed to him.

The chairman is the parliamentary manager of the SPD parliamentary group, Daniel Keller, and the deputy chairman of the AfD parliamentary group leader Christoph Berndt.

Corona investigation committee in the Brandenburg state parliament