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Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) - In the committee of inquiry into the affair about the financing of the Expo pavilion, a key figure was again heard as a witness on Friday.
The former managing director of the Chamber of Engineers, Daniel Sander, said during his interrogation in Stuttgart that he had signed the contract for the participation in the Expo in Dubai planned for 2021 for the consortium and not for the state of Baden-Württemberg.
In some cases, Sander did not provide any information because the public prosecutor's office is now also interested in the matter.
Although no investigations are currently being carried out, reports on the events are being monitored.
The Chamber of Engineers, the Freiburg Exhibition Center and the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering and Organization in Stuttgart were part of the project company that pushed the project forward.
In the course of the statement by Sanders, a protocol became known according to which the minister of education and CDU top candidate for the state elections, Susanne Eisenmann, is said to have campaigned for the project.
It says: "According to Sander, CDU top candidate Eisenmann has asked the Ministry of Economics that the Dubai House must be financed."
Sander said he couldn't remember it.
"I do not know the protocol and cannot classify it."
After Sander, Eisenmann is to be questioned as a witness in the late afternoon.
She was invited at the request of the opposition FDP and SPD.
The background to the affair is the question of how the country became a contractual partner of the Expo organizers in Dubai.
The project company actually wanted to finance the pavilion entirely with the help of companies.
She had declared it as a project “from business for business”.
But because sponsors withdrew their commitments, the country stepped in.
The costs for the project, i.e. for the construction and operation of the pavilion as well as for participation in the expo, are now expected to be 15 million euros.
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