In the middle of the final spurt of the election campaign, the Bundestag Finance Committee will meet for a special session on Monday.
Trigger: The public prosecutor’s office is investigating the special money laundering unit of customs (FIU). The suspicion: thwarting of punishment in office because officials are said to have not passed on information from banks to the police. Investigators searched the Treasury Department ten days ago.
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Finance Minister Olaf Scholz (SPD) will now be asked about the raid on Monday. The CDU demands that Scholz come to the Bundestag and not only be switched on via video. General Secretary Paul Ziemiak (36, CDU) on BamS: “If Mr Scholz does not personally answer parliamentary questions on Monday and prefers to campaign, it would be the next derailment. Then he fools parliament. “
Background: With a view to the election campaign, hybrid invitations were made to the special session, the MPs can go to Berlin or connect digitally. Scholz complained about this for himself: He is practically in Baden-Württemberg in the election campaign on Monday, thus avoiding pictures from the Bundestag.
CSU financial expert Sebastian Brehm (49) demands transparency about how many bank notices have not been forwarded: “This must be fully disclosed to the finance committee on Monday.”
Scholz himself denies omissions: “An external audit is currently underway with the aim of further improving the processes in the FIU. The initial weaknesses of the FIU have long been recognized, they have been and will be tackled with determination. “ ⇥uhu