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Berlin (dpa) - In the Union's mask affair, the deadline for the parliamentary group leadership to submit a kind of declaration of honor expires on Friday.
Union faction leader Ralph Brinkhaus (CDU) and CSU regional group leader Alexander Dobrindt had asked the 245 Union parliamentarians on Wednesday to declare by then that they had not achieved any financial benefits in connection with the fight against the corona pandemic - neither directly nor through companies.
It was initially unclear when the Union parliamentary group would make the result of the survey public.
Brinkhaus and Dobrindt had written in an email to the MPs that because of the events surrounding the MPs Georg Nüßlein (previously CSU) and Nikolas Löbel (previously CDU), who have since left the parties, they see it as their responsibility to «present such issues in a completely transparent manner to enlighten ».
The public prosecutor's office is investigating Nüßlein because of the initial suspicion of corruption.
Löbel has admitted that his company has received commissions of around 250,000 euros for brokering sales contracts for corona protective masks.
The public prosecutor's office checks whether there is sufficient initial suspicion to initiate investigative proceedings.
Both politicians have since left their respective parties.
Löbel resigned from the Bundestag with immediate effect.
Nüßlein no longer wants to run for the Bundestag in the autumn.
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