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Andreas Scheuer: The lawyer for the Minister of Transport refers to correspondence that has already been released from the MP's mailbox
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There are still questions unanswered when it comes to dealing with the failed car toll.
Now, Federal Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer (CSU) has refused to work with an investigative commissioner appointed by the Bundestag's investigative committee.
This emerges from a letter from Scheuer's lawyer, which is available to the dpa news agency.
The opposition accused Scheuer of trying to hide something.
The cooperation was about a sighting of Scheuer's e-mail inboxes, which are available to him as a member of the Bundestag, by the investigative officer Jerzy Montag.
Monday now wrote to the chairman of the committee of inquiry that he no longer saw the possibility of acting as an investigative officer.
In the letter from Scheuer's lawyer, reference is made to the fact that correspondence from the MP's mailbox has already been handed over to the committee of inquiry.
Scheuer did not agree to the "extensive interference with his constitutionally guaranteed rights as a member of the federal parliament" that would go hand in hand with a sighting.
Fierce criticism came from the opposition: "Mr. Scheuer continues to use all means to brick in matters of e-mails, apparently he has something to hide," said the FDP transport politician Oliver Luksic.
“He has no right to generally refuse to cooperate with the investigator.
Such behavior is unworthy of a minister, he is also breaking his own word. ”Luksic brought a special meeting of the committee of inquiry into play.
The Green MP Oliver Krischer said: "Only if you have something to hide, you do not work with the investigative officer." because nobody wants to look inside.
The German model for a car toll failed in the summer of 2019 before the European Court of Justice.
The opposition accuses Scheuer, among other things, of having concluded contracts before there was legal certainty.
The planned operators are demanding 560 million euros in damages after the federal government terminated the contracts immediately after the judgment.
Scheuer rejects the allegations.
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