German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/60,
pp. 6713-6714.
Frau President. Ladies and gentlemen.
Herr Chancellor speaks of “unsupported horror stories”.
Essentially, it is about the Cum-Ex scandal, apparently the largest tax fraud
in history. A high two-figure sum in the billions was thereby embezzled in
Germany. Commerzbank, the WestLB, the HSH Nordbank, the Deutsche Post, the KfW,
Volkswagen and other businesses with public shares are under suspicion of
having participated therein. The state prosecutors office in Cologne with 19
prosecutorial teams investigates around 1,000 suspects. The central point in
the fraudulent manipulations lies in the years 2009 to 2011.
It is about the manipulations of so-called Cum-Ex business.
What is that? Capital gains taxes will be automatically detained in regards
dividend payments. Specific recipients of these dividends are released from this
tax and can therefore take back the tax amount from the Finance Office. This opportunity
of a tax refund was with high cunning abused and the treasury defrauded.
The banking house of Warburg in Hamburg was very active in
this business field between 2007 and 2011. It “surreptitiously obtained” [„erschlichen“], as formulated by one business
accountant, 169 million euros for this; meantime, a greater part of the tax
requirements expired. In the year 2016, an additional sum of 47 million euros
threatened to expire. The mysterious circumstances in this regard have to do
with the First Bürgermeister of that time, subsequently Finance Minister and
today‘s Chancellor.
All of the sudden
an accountant at the responsible Finance Office began to reconsider the return,
writes the author Huld who for years occupies herself with the Scholz affair.
She contacted the bank shareholder Olearius who implicated Alfons Pawelczyk,
the former Second Bürgermeister, on account of his contacts with Scholz. Both
are members of the Hansestadt’s polite
society.
Parallel to this,
the Federal budget politician Kahrs was authorized as a lobbyist in Berlin. He
is the one who in red woolen socks incessantly attacked the AfD with invective
in the German Bundestag; it could also be said, so as to remain au milieu – with dirt and rubbish – and in
whose safe deposit box was later found 200,000 euros of an origin unclarified
to this day. Since we strongly believe in the independence of the Hamburg
Justice, the proceeding will surely be rapidly clarified. Also at this time, a party contribution in the
sum of 45,000 euros was made by this same perplexed bank to the SPD.
In the year 2017,
one of the leading officials of the Federal Finance Ministry took notice of the
not yet expired tax requirement of the sum of 47 million euros against the
Warburg Bank. This co-worker insisted that the Hamburg authorities needed to
prevent the expiration with a formal permission – a relatively uncommon procedure.
Acknowledgement of this was yielded by means of investigations of the Cologne
state prosecutor’s office. In Hamburg, nothing at all was criminally
investigated.
In Cologne
emerged the diary of Olearius in which there is talk of meetings with Scholz and
the activities of Kahrs and Pawelczyk. Two conversations of Scholz with
Olearius ensued in the offices of the First Bürgermeister – without witnesses
and without result in the documentation. This was therefore ticklish because
the Finance Minister previously denied any meeting with Olearius. I myself was
witness to such a denial in the Finance Committee.
The capable
official who wanted to avert harm from the country, was, following the
assumption of office by Scholz, surprisingly early pensioned and the
requirement of the sum of 47 million expired. That is no unsupported horror
story but describes, right honorable ladies and gentlemen, the state of the
nation.
It is exactly so
the case with the domestic security, with defense against mass immigration and the resulting situation in the housing market, state finances, the education system, the
energy supply, the booty system in public service opposed to the performance
principle according to Article 33 of the Basic Law, especially so in Justice,
and with the distressed freedom of opinion.
Appreciation of this state and of democracy as a whole,
ladies and gentlemen, measurably withers for years – for that, there are
endlessly many opinion surveys – not because the citizens are bad democrats but
because the political class does not fulfill its duties. This state is not delegitimized
by villains – my last sentence –
Vice-president Wolfgang Kubicki: Herr colleague, please come to a conclusion.
as the Interior Minister asserts, no, it delegitimizes
itself by means of failures of agency and the knowingly induced renunciation of
the cultural identity in this country, right honorable ladies and gentlemen.
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