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Hamburg (dpa / lno) - The parliamentary committee of inquiry into the cum-ex tax money affair is today in its fifth session, including the list of witnesses.
The MPs want to clarify who should be interviewed when and in which order in the Hamburg City Hall.
In addition to the main owners of the Warburg Bank, Christian Olearius and Max Warburg, this should include the former Mayor of Hamburg and current Federal Finance Minister Olaf Scholz and his successor in the town hall, Peter Tschentscher.
In addition, the former member of the Bundestag Johannes Kahrs and ex-Interior Senator Alfons Pawelczyk (all SPD) are to be questioned.
The investigative committee is supposed to clarify the allegation of the possible influence of leading SPD politicians on the tax treatment of the Hamburg Warburg Bank involved in the "Cum-Ex" scandal.
The background to this are meetings between the then Hamburg mayor Scholz in 2016 and 2017 with Warburg co-owner Olearius, against whom investigations were underway on suspicion of serious tax evasion.
Tschentscher was Senator for Finance at the time.
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Hamburg later allowed possible additional 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.
In the meantime, the Warburg Bank has paid all tax claims, but this is not an admission of guilt, as it emphasized.
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