AfD Kompakt, September 10, 2021.
All that we at this time are hearing of the inquiries sounds
exactly like the beginning of the Wirecard affair. The Finance Minister said
the authorities installed by the Finance Minister at the BaFin [Federal Financial Supervisory Authority] had committed no
mistakes and that his house had nothing to do with it. It soon turned out that
the communication between the BaFin
and the FM [Finance Ministry] was very
close and that an adequate supervision did not occur.
It now again so appears in the case of the FIU, the special unit for the prevention
of money laundering at customs. The removal of the competence from the BKA [Federal Criminal Office] to customs
was criticized by many professional people, the pertinent trade union and by
co-workers. And the Bundestag’s Finance Committee had concerned itself with the
structural change. The FIU’s reports
of suspicious activity have been reduced to a fraction without that disturbing
the supervising Finance Ministry. As the Finance Minister explained at the time,
co-workers in his house were not directly concerned with the inquiries. It
meanwhile appears to be clear that there was and is routine communication
between the Ministry and the FIU,
which again urges the suspicion that also in this case the Ministry’s supervision
of the FIU and the Finance Minister’s
supervision over his house are not functioning.
Scholz in his time had defended the Warburg Bank in Hamburg
from the grasp of the tax administration, which the BaFin had covered until the recall of its president, and now wants
nothing to do with the FIU’s
failures. Yet plainly not every politician can do all that he believes himself
capable of.
[trans: tem]
