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Erfurt (dpa / th) - Former CDU member of the Bundestag Mark Hauptmann has shown lobbying for Thuringian companies after a media report in the Corona crisis.
In the summer of 2020 he advertised disinfectant dispensers from Thuringia in an email, writes the newspaper “Free Word” (Wednesday).
He recommended the products of two companies from southern Thuringia.
He named himself as a contact person for potential interested parties.
"Please do not hesitate to contact the company, my team or me," the newspaper quotes from the email that it claims to have.
Hauptmann did not respond to a request from the dpa on Wednesday.
The managing directors of the two South Thuringian companies stated after the report that they had never promised or paid Hauptmann commissions for his recommendation.
However, one of the managing directors admitted to having donated a small three-digit sum to Hauptmann once during the 2017 federal election campaign.
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The Thuringian judiciary is investigating the suspicion of bribery against Hauptmann.
The Jena Public Prosecutor's Office is checking whether he has received several hundred thousand euros in commission for mediating masks for a Frankfurt company in the Corona crisis.
The public prosecutor's office has therefore frozen almost a million euros from Hauptmann's assets.
Hauptmann has always denied having enriched himself with the mediation of masks during the Corona crisis.
After the allegations became known, he resigned from the CDU.
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