The diary of Christian Olearius, the scandalous former chairman of the Hamburg private bank MM Warburg, proves the possible corruption of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. writes about this Financial Times.
It was reported that the banker came to Scholz, who was the Mayor of Hamburg at the time, in 2016 with a request to write off the tax debt of 47 million Euros. A second meeting with Scholz was held before a favorable decision for him, in which Scholz told him to send a document outlining the bank’s claims in court to a member of the Hamburg Senate finance committee.
It is stated that while Olearius was lobbying for this issue, he was “extremely aware of the risks for the German politician” and wrote in his diary that he “did not want to embarrass him in any way”. Scholz claims that he does not remember such a meeting, but a few weeks after the meeting, the lawsuit filed against the bank was dismissed.
Before that Scholz accepted Resignation letter from the Minister of Defense.
Previously at Scholz guess Resignation due to the lifting of the “debt brake”.