German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will testify today before a parliamentary committee investigating a tax fraud scandal called “Comics Files”, a French news agency reported. this case in Germany.

And noted: “Among the banks blamed for this scandal was the Warburg bank in Hamburg, which was supposed to pay 47 million euros to the city, but its municipality refused this in 2016, and the bank was forced to pay tens of millions of euros after that. under pressure from the government of Angela Merkel.
In this context, investigators are trying to establish whether political leaders, including Olaf Scholz, the city’s mayor at the time, pressured the municipal tax authorities to stop collecting these taxes.
Earlier, German government spokesman Steffen Hebeschreitt said: “I can’t say anything about this,” stressing that Schultz would “answer” all questions from the committee.