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German elections: Olaf Scholz and the fight against dirty money

2021-09-20T18:45:14.956Z


The election favorite has hardly fought as minister against the mafias who invest their earnings in Germany.


In Berlin

Olaf Scholz's election campaign was put on hold on Monday, time to answer questions from the Bundestag's finance committee. The object of this extraordinary summons, less than a week before the federal election, related to the search carried out by the Osnabrück prosecution on September 9, as part of an investigation for "obstruction of justice". Employees of a special unit for the fight against money laundering of the FIU (Financial Intelligence Unit) under the Ministry of Finance, would not have reported in time suspicious transfers transmitted by three banks (drug and weapons, terrorist financing) to the police and the judiciary. Olaf Scholz camp evokes

"CDU conspiracy"

, of which the Osnabrück public prosecutor is a member.

In the home stretch, political opponents (FDP, CDU and Greens) are trying to discredit the poll favorite whose name is already mentioned in two cases, CumEx and Wirecard.

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Source: lefigaro

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