The former SPD member of the Bundestag Johannes Kahrs has been under investigation for months. Now investigators found his locker 200,000 euros. There is an initial suspicion of favoritism for tax evasion.
It is an explosive discovery that investigators have made in the locker at the Hamburger Sparkasse: there were 200,000 euros in cash in different sized bills.
This is reported by “Bild”. Accordingly, the money was discovered last fall when the officers searched Kahrs’ private apartment and the rooms of the tax authorities in Hamburg – and the locker.
According to “Bild”, the Cologne public prosecutor’s office now sees an indication that Kahrs may have campaigned to save the Hamburger Warburg Bank, which was involved in illegal so-called cum-ex transactions, huge tax repayments in the millions. According to the report, the accusation is: Initial suspicion of favoring tax evasion.
A committee of inquiry is currently running in Hamburg. Kahrs campaigned for the Warburg Bank several times at the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin), in the Federal Ministry of Finance and also at the then Federal Minister of Finance, Olaf Scholz. Kahrs sat in the Bundestag until 2020. He is considered a long-time Scholz companion.
