Olaf Scholz (SPD) under pressure because of the-Ex scandal. According to a report, an e-mail could put the chancellor in need of explanation.
Financial actors around the Hamburg banker Christian Olearius are said to have cheated the German state out of billions. An e-mails of 30 June 2020 shows "that Scholhz is already receiving detailed information for the July meeting of the Finance Committee," writes Der Spiegel. The question "now arises more urgently than before as to whether Schollz has always told the whole truth about his contacts with Olearius"