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Hamburg / Berlin (dpa) - Before a meeting of the parliamentary committee of inquiry of the Hamburg citizenship on the cum-ex scandal, the Greens in the Bundestag demanded clarification from Vice Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD).
Today's federal finance minister must make it clear why Hamburg initially waived possible double-digit million additional tax claims against the Warburg Bank, which was involved in the "Cum-Ex" scandal, said the financial expert of the Green parliamentary group, Lisa Paus, on Friday of the German Press Agency.
The Hamburg investigative committee is supposed to clarify the allegation of the possible influence of leading SPD politicians on the tax treatment of the Hamburg bank.
The background to this are meetings between Scholz in 2016 and 2017 with Warburg co-owner Christian Olearius, against whom investigations were underway on suspicion of serious tax evasion.
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.
"With every questioning in the Bundestag so far, further details in the Warburg case have come to light," said Paus.
“So far, Olaf Scholz and the SPD have only admitted bit by bit, which could no longer be denied publicly.
In addition there were the supposed gaps in Olaf Scholz's memory regarding the important meeting with Mr. Olearius. "
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This must now take place in Hamburg.
"It should also be clarified to what extent the tax secrecy applies to the investigative committee."
So far, Scholz and his successor in the town hall, the then Finance Senator and today's Mayor Peter Tschentscher, had rejected all allegations, but had not commented on details, citing tax secrecy.
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