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The parliamentary committee of inquiry of the Hamburg citizenship on the cum-ex scandal wants to have the appointment calendar of Federal Finance Minister Olaf Scholz during his time as Hamburg mayor.

After the Senate Chancellery had declared in the fifth meeting of the body in the town hall on Friday that the SPD politician had received the calendar in a data store when he switched to the Federal Ministry of Finance, the committee chairman Mathias Petersen (SPD) asked the working staff to update the calendar immediately to request.

In addition, the committee would like to take minutes of the Finance Committee of the German Bundestag by way of administrative assistance, provided that the Cum-Ex scandal was the subject there.

The investigative committee wants 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 Scholz and Warburg co-owner Christian Olearius in 2016 and 2017, against whom investigations were underway on suspicion of serious tax evasion.

Hamburg's current mayor Peter Tschentscher (SPD) was finance senator at the time.

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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Committee members were surprised that there had obviously been no preparatory communication with the authorities for Scholz's meeting with the banker.

At least there are no documents.

The mayor had obviously gone "blindly" in talks with the bank, said the CDU economic expert Götz Wiese.

The department head in the Senate Chancellery and former Senate spokesman Christof Otto said that it often happens that the mayors attend appointments without special and therefore on-record advice.

The employees of the Senate Chancellery had searched thoroughly and repeatedly for it.

"From my point of view everything indicates that there was simply no communication with the planning staff for these same dates."

Above all, representatives of the CDU and the left were generally dissatisfied with the provision of documents by the Senate.

Wiese called it absurd that the committee should specify to the Senate what it wanted.

"The committee needs full access," said Wiese.

This affects all documents and statements, but also e-mails.

The next meeting is scheduled for April 16.

Then it should also be clarified when Scholz should testify in the committee.

In addition to him and the main owners of the Warburg Bank, Olearius and Max Warburg, Mayor Tschentscher is also to be invited.

In addition, the former member of the Bundestag Johannes Kahrs and ex-Interior Senator Alfons Pawelczyk (both SPD) as well as a good dozen employees from different departments and authorities are to be interviewed.

An expert hearing is planned for around May 7th.