"The Hamburg star lawyer Gerhard Strate has filed a complaint against Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Hamburg Mayor Peter Tschentscher (both SPD). It's about their possible role in the cum-ex tax money affair about the Hamburg Warburg Bank.
The star lawyer filed the criminal complaint against the two politicians on Tuesday. Scholz and Tschentscher held their "protective hand" over the bank, quoted the "Manager Magazin" from the ad. The politicians had made themselves "assistants of the tax evaders from the Warburg Bank". ...."
"I reported Hamburg's Mayor Peter Tschentscher and various officials from the tax authority and the tax office for large companies for aiding and abetting tax evasion," confirms Gerhard Strate to MOPO. "I accuse Chancellor Olaf Scholz of making a false unsworn testimony before the Hamburg Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry."
He declined to comment further on the background to the ad. “I was not encouraged to do this by anyone, it was my own decision. It's about drawing political and legal attention to the issue," said Strate. Hamburg allowed millions in taxes to expire
The Hamburg Warburg Bank, based in the old town, was involved in cum-ex deals. Banks, investors or stock traders can be reimbursed twice for taxes that were only paid once. In 2016, Hamburg allowed possible additional tax claims of 47 million euros to become statute-barred because tax evasion could not be proven.
Another over 43 million euros was only requested in 2017 after the intervention of the Federal Ministry of Finance. In Hamburg, a parliamentary investigative committee is currently tasked with clarifying the allegation that leading SPD politicians may be influencing the decisions of the tax office. Meeting between Scholz and the Warburg co-owner
As the then mayor of Hamburg, Olaf Scholz had met Warburg co-owner Christian Olearius several times in 2016 and 2017. Investigations were already underway against Olearius on suspicion of serious tax evasion.
The meetings with Scholz had become known through Olearius' diary entries. Scholz and also Peter Tschentscher, who was Senator for Finance at the time, have rejected all allegations in this connection. Scholz had repeatedly indicated gaps in memory when it came to reconstructing the meetings. Committee of Inquiry meets in Hamburg
Strate does not believe this to be credible, which he expresses in his ad. "A complete lack of memory - as Olaf Scholz claims for himself - is a phenomenon that is occasionally diagnosed in testimony and memory psychology only in the context of a so-called post-traumatic stress disorder. There is no evidence for that here,” he quotes the “Spiegel”.
On Friday, further witnesses, including former employees from the tax authorities, will be heard in the committee of inquiry. "
https://www.mopo.de/hamburg/politik/hamburger-star-anwalt-zeigt-scholz-und-tschentscher-an/
PLEASE, dear frens, pray for Germany that the swamp of politicians AND bankers (Warburg bank - know your history!!!!) starts to be drained now - finally! Thank you!!!
Background to CUM EX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrpDrdPwXqM
EDIT (because it is just streaming and Warburg/Rothschild is named in it): The Titanic Secret of Jekyll Island - ROBERT SEPEHR
hoping things go well!
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Would only be a start, but nevertheless.