Hamburg’s CDU leader Dennis Thering clearly opposed Chancellor Olaf Scholz in the Cum-Ex affair. “The evidence is overwhelming,” he said
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regarding the investigations by the parliamentary group against Scholz. In 2016, this is said to have had a decisive influence on Warburg-Bank initially not having to make a tax refund of around 47 million euros.
The investigations carried out so far have progressed “far”. Thering welcomes the fact that the Bundestag now also wants to set up a committee of inquiry. “Olaf Scholz reported significant knowledge gaps to the parliamentary inquiry committee. He is generally considered to be well structured and can remember everything and everyone.” In addition, it was “suspicious that Scholz initially denied his various meetings with the head of the Warburg Bank, Mr. Olearius”.
Did Scholz lie? “The evidence speaks for it”
Peter Tschentscher, mayor of Hamburg and then finance senator, asked the tax authorities to keep him up to date – “a very unusual occurrence”. In addition, there was the discovery of more than 200,000 euros in a locker belonging to the former SPD member of the Bundestag Johannes Kahrs. “To this day nobody can tell us where this money came from.”
For Thering it is certain “that Scholz and Tschentscher clearly exerted political influence on the Warburg tax proceedings”. They had “so far missed any will to clarify”. Is Scholz’s statement that he had no influence, so a lie? “The evidence speaks for it, yes.” If evidence against Scholz and Tschentscher could be presented, “then they could no longer be kept in office”.
