Representatives of the Warburg Bank involved in the "Cum-Ex" affair and its owners have called for the North Rhine-Westphalian Justice Minister Peter Biesenbach (CDU) to be summoned to the Hamburg Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry into the controversial tax deals. It must be clarified how the house searches initiated by the Cologne Public Prosecutor's Office and "medially announced parallel to this house searches" came about in Hamburg at the end of September, lawyer Peter Gauweiler told the committee on Friday.
Hamburg - Two days after the general election, the apartment of the former SPD member of the Bundestag Johannes Kahr and the premises of the Hamburg tax authorities were searched.
According to the public prosecutor's office in Cologne, the operation took place in connection with investigations into the initial suspicion of beneficiaries in connection with “cum-ex” transactions.
In addition to Kahrs, the former Hamburg Senator for the Interior Alfons Pawelczyk (SPD) and the tax officer responsible for the Warburg Bank are also being investigated.
According to the Ministry of Justice in Düsseldorf, the investigations by the Cologne public prosecutor's office had initially been stopped by the Cologne public prosecutor's office due to concerns.
The public prosecutor then approached the ministry with a request for an examination, which confirmed the initial suspicion.
Gauweiler pointed out that Kahrs, Pawelczyk and the tax officer are being led as witnesses by the investigative committee, which is supposed to clarify the possible influence of leading SPD politicians on the tax treatment of the Warburg Bank.
He indicated that the searches were intended to influence the work.
It is therefore "essential" that Justice Minister Biesenbach, the Cologne Public Prosecutor and the public prosecutor testify before the PUA.
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Warburg lawyer Klaus Landry had previously raised allegations against investigators from North Rhine-Westphalia.
For example, “employees of the Cologne public prosecutor's office or the LKA” illegally passed on excerpts from the diary of the bank co-owner Christian Olearius from investigation files to the media.
It is difficult to believe that this did not happen in order to "denigrate and prejudice Olearius and the Warburg Bank and to put them in public pillory".
dpa