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Conflict of interest? After the mask scandal - Left demands Spahn's resignation

2021-03-22T22:07:37.420Z


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.


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.

Update from March 22nd, 3:10 p.m.:

After reports and affairs about the procurement of corona protective masks, Left Federal Managing Director Jörg Schindler has called for the resignation of Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU).

"The impression is growing that at least some of the threads in the mask affair come together in the Ministry of Health," said Schindler on Monday in Berlin

The suspicion that, under the eyes of the Minister of Health, Union politicians have enriched themselves in the procurement of masks and that Spahn “maybe even got involved in such business through his husband is really monstrous”.

It is not only decisive whether and who has benefited from it.

There is a lack of awareness of the damage that occurs when orders worth millions are awarded in a non-transparent manner, Schindler said.

"The mere suspicion undermines the already damaged trust in the Corona policy and the government work of the CDU as a whole." As long as the suspicion is not dispelled, Spahn could not continue to be Minister of Health.

At the weekend it became known that the Federal Ministry of Health had bought FFP2 protective masks from a company that also works for Spahn's husband Daniel Funke.

According to the ministry, the contract was concluded at market prices.

Funke was involved "at no point in time" and no commission was paid.

Conflict of interest?

Spahn's husband's employer sold corona masks - probably to the Ministry of Health

First report from March 21:

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.

* Merkur.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA

Source: merkur

All news articles on 2021-03-22

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