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Nizar Maarouf, businessman and spouse of the Berlin State Secretary for Civic Commitment and International Affairs, Sawsan Chebli (SPD), was involved in controversial business with partners in the Gulf States for years.
This is shown by research by WELT AM SONNTAG.
According to this, Maarouf earned commissions in 2008 for referring patients for the municipal hospital group Vivantes in Berlin, which according to a court ruling and expert opinion are considered "immoral".
In one case, documents show that Maarouf received 27,000 euros from Vivantes in this way.
Shortly afterwards, the former medical student became vice director of the international division of the clinic group.
According to research, two nieces of his wife Sawsan Chebli were hired at Vivantes International under Maarouf's management.
In the summer of 2017, the two women and one other employee came under the focus of internal auditing.
Together they are said to have paid out amounts of more than 100,000 euros from patient accounts to themselves over a longer period of time.
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Vivantes basically admits the processes.
The women's employment relationship has been terminated.
The company then revised its compliance regulations.
Maarouf and Chebli did not comment on the allegations when asked.
Maarouf also referred the two CDU MPs Nikolas Löbel and Mark Hauptmann to the management of his employer at the time, Sana, in spring 2020.
The business offered to the hospital group by the MPs, in the case of Löbel, the procurement of protective masks against commission, did not materialize.
Löbel and Hauptmann later had to resign because of controversial deals with other partners.
Maarouf's lawyer announced that his client was not responsible for such transactions at Sana.