“No suspicion” against him Olaf Soltz for the “Cum-Ex” tax evasion scandal, his Attorney General does not find Hamburgwhich dismissed a complaint against the Federal Chancellor in this case.

The Hamburg prosecutor’s office does not yet have evidence of possible assistance from Olaf Solz as mayor/governor of Hamburg during the controversial period in the tax scandal with Warburg Bank, prosecutor Mia Sperling-Carstens told the Tagesspiegel newspaper, and a representative of the prosecutor’s office confirmed the information to the German Agency (dpa).

The corresponding decision was made on 10 August.

In February last year, lawyer Gerhard Strait filed a lawsuit against Olaf Scholz and former finance minister and current mayor/governor of Hamburg Peter Chancher on suspicion of facilitating tax evasion by Warburg Bank.

The Attorney General’s Office dismissed the suit as unsubstantiated, Tagesspiegel points out, because “there is not sufficient factual evidence to suspect that the bank’s alleged tax evasion was carried out with the knowledge or intention of those responsible for the competent tax authorities in Hamburg.”

The Hamburg tax office temporarily waived 47 million euros in taxes in 2016, and it remains a question whether this was done with the approval or even at the initiative of the then political leadership of the state.

The issue is also being handled by a special Investigative Committee of the local parliament, before which the chancellor is expected to testify on Friday. “There is no evidence that there was any political influence and I am sure that will not change,” Mr. Soltz said last week, referring to the case.

^{Source: APE-MEB}