German Chancellor Olaf Scholz jumped into a banking scandal

At the center of the discussion is the following finding: 214,000 € Cash in a safe where former Social Democratic Party (SPD) MP Johannes Kahrs was mayor of the same religion, Scholz, who ran a local Hamburg group in 2016.

According to German media, cash may be linked to bank scandal WarburgA committee of the Hamburg local Parliament has been investigating for more than two years and the role of the current prime minister is still not clear.

In 2016, the financial authorities of the port city refused to return. 47 million € it was reported that the bank in question obtained it through illegal transactions after a series of meetings between the executives of the institution and the senior officials of the SPD.

Scholz, for his part, refuses to influencehe declares that, as mayor, he hardly remembers the decision of the financial authorities and the content of his speeches at the time.

In accordance with “Der Spiegel”There is no evidence that the money currently in the safe is related to the Warburg bank scandal.

However, he stresses that the financial institution has at least donated. 45.500 € To the Hamburg SPD, mainly to the group Kahrs manages, and partly through the bank’s subsidiaries and associated companies.

According to the notes in the bank owner’s diary, Christian Olearius, It was Kahrs who acted as the mediator in organizing their meetings with the then mayor of Hamburg and now the chancellor in 2016 and 2017.

Kahrs himself has yet to comment on the matter. cash sourcea government spokesman said this week that he was not aware of Scholz’s existence.

Other media this week, the prosecutor’s office Cologne (West), cooperating in the clarification of the “cum ex” case, ordered an examination of Scholz’s email account when he was first mayor in March this year.

The future is expected 19 August The Chancellor testifies a second time before the investigative commission of the Hamburg local parliament.