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Joe Laschet (right) with his parents: "It wasn't about personal benefits, but about effective help."
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In the debate about an order for masks and gowns from the state government in North Rhine-Westphalia at the van Laack fashion company, Johannes "Joe" Laschet spoke up: "Of course I have not received a cent, advantage or commission," he wrote Son of NRW Prime Minister Armin Laschet (CDU) in the social network Instagram.
When looking for masks and producers at the beginning of the corona crisis, he passed on to his father the contact of an "owner with whom I have known for a long time," wrote Joe Laschet - without mentioning the name of van Laack.
"The purpose of the whole thing was that hospitals, doctors and nurses could get missing protective clothing," says the fashion influencer, who has almost 92,000 subscribers on Instagram: "It wasn't about personal benefits, but about effective help."
Van Laack owner Christian von Daniels had announced in the "Rheinische Post" at the weekend that his advertising partner "Joe" Laschet had made contact with the Prime Minister.
In the spring, the company from Mönchengladbach received an order from the state for 38.5 million euros.
The NRW police later ordered two 1.25 million masks for a total of four million euros.
SPD wants to check the process
The SPD parliamentary group in the state parliament then made a small question about the background to the deal.
She sensed “influencer marketing in the State Chancellery”.
Prime Minister Armin Laschet protested against the allegations.
"I find the baseless allegations of the SPD shabby and indecent," said Laschet at a press conference with Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) in Düsseldorf.
To »stern.de«, Daniels said that influencer Laschet earned 6,358 euros at Van Laack in the past financial year.
In the previous year it was 4817.98 euros.
The clothes that Laschet shows on Instagram are on loan.
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