Jens Spahn's husband's company is said to have sold FFP2 masks to the Federal Ministry of Health.
She has already commented on the process.
Berlin - The Ministry of Health under Jens Spahn (CDU *) is said to have bought corona masks - from a company where his husband Daniel Funke works as a lobbyist.
The
Spiegel
reports
.
Accordingly, the ministry bought FFP2 protective masks from Burda GmbH last year.
That could harbor conflicts of interest because Spahn's husband Funke works as a lobbyist and office manager of the Burda representative in Berlin, the news magazine continues.
According to a list by the Federal Ministry of Health * from Thursday about protective mask delivery contracts, Burda GmbH sent 570,000 FFP2 masks to Spahn's ministry.
Spahn husband Funke is said to have brokered corona masks - via "direct procurement"
"The contract with Burda GmbH was concluded and processed
after receipt of the
offer according to a standardized procedure at market prices," the ministry said on
request
from
Spiegel
.
According to the report, a Burda spokesman told the news magazine: "The board of directors of Hubert Burda Media offered the Ministry of Health to help with the procurement of masks in April 2020 when the federal government was urgently looking for protective masks."
Spiegel also
reports
that the deal is on the list as "direct procurement", that is, without prior tendering between Spahn's ministry and the company.
In
response to a request
from
Spiegel,
Burda said
that Funke was said to have "never been informed or involved in the transaction".
No commission was paid either.
Burda also submitted this statement for Funke, who did not respond to the request.
Mask affair in the Union: Bavaria's ex-Justice Minister Sauter resigns
The subject of mask sales is sensitive, among other things, because it was also direct procurement that led to the Union's “mask affair”.
Georg Nüßlein, a member of the Bundestag who has since left the CSU, is being investigated because of the initial suspicion of corruptibility.
He had rejected the allegations in connection with a six-figure commission payment for the brokerage of corona protective masks to the state through his lawyer.
In the meantime, the Munich Public Prosecutor's Office is also investigating the former Bavarian Minister of Justice and Member of the State Parliament Alfred Sauter * - he has also had the allegations rejected.
Most recently, on Thursday, the CSU member of the Bundestag Tobias Zech announced his withdrawal from the Bundestag because of possible "conflicts of interest".
The resignation has nothing to do with the corona protective mask affair.
Rather, the background is allegations of having merged mandate and entrepreneurial activities.
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