The Chancellor is to answer a series of questions before the Cum-Ex Committee in Hamburg.
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Hamburg, Düsseldorf Around 5 p.m., the whole thing turns comical. Richard Seelmaecker, CDU representative in the Cum-Ex investigative committee of the Hamburg Parliament, asks Olaf Scholz: whether the Chancellor might be willing to undergo hypnosis to deal with his obvious partial amnesia in the matter of Warburg?
With all the condescension he is capable of – and as it turns out that day, that’s quite a lot – Scholz replies: “You should leave the hocus-pocus that you insinuate with your question.”
The Federal Chancellor had previously countered the Hamburg MP elsewhere: “You won’t even get through with this argument as a trainee lawyer”. Seelmaecker asked whether the meetings between Scholz and the co-owners of Warburg-Bank, Christian Olearius and Max Warburg, were not tax hearings that should have been noted in the files.
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