https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/masken-lobbyismus-bundestag-korruption-1.5225744
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sueddeutsche.de Bundestag:
More MPs involved in mask deals
Southgerman newspaper 3-4 minutes
One of the parliamentarians admits that he earned a quarter of a million euros from the business. Several dozen others are also said to have tried to make a profit from it. The affair of allegedly paid mask lobbyists from the Bundestag is widening: As Spiegel reports, at least two other CDU MPs are said to have either asked for a commission for the procurement of protective masks, or are suspected of having been strong in the Federal Ministry of Health for companies from their own constituency to have done and then received favors.
The CDU MP Nikolas Löbel is said to have received a quarter of a million euros in commission.
The parliamentarian from Mannheim offered companies from the health sector to provide them with corona protective masks from a company in Baden-Württemberg for a commission. In an e-mail in which he introduced himself as a member of parliament, he asked for a commission in the event of a delivery:
For every mask that is purchased through him, "I receive 0.12 euros plus VAT from the buyer," wrote Löbel . Löbel confirmed to the news magazine that he had won a chain of retirement homes and a hospital company as customers.
His company earned "remuneration of around a quarter of a million euros" through the sale of masks. "In retrospect, the mediation was wrong," the politician told Spiegel. Almost two dozen MPs got involved in the mask business In another case, the Hessian Bundestag member Hans-Jürgen Irmer (CDU) campaigned for Stone Alliance GmbH from his constituency in Wetzlar, which claims to have delivered masks to the Federal Ministry of Health and was waiting for payment.
At the request of the managing director, Irmer wrote to the head of department Jens Spahn (CDU), "To what extent the Stone Alliance company can be helped," confirmed Irmer when asked by Spiegel. In September 2020, another company owned by the managing director of Stone Alliance placed an ad in the Wetzlar courier. According to the legal notice, the newspaper is published by Hans-Jürgen Irmer.
The company and Irmer deny that the ad was a consideration for the work at Spahn. He writes 500 to 1000 letters a year, said Irmer, and makes sure that "everything goes according to plan". The two MPs are not the only cases of parliamentarians interfering in the mask business. According to the report, almost two dozen of the people's representatives are said to have campaigned for companies. With the exception of Löbel, however, they deny having received anything in return. Last week, the Bundestag lifted the immunity of the Union parliamentary group deputy Georg Nüßlein, who was accused of bribery in the context of procuring masks.
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sueddeutsche.de Bundestag:
More MPs involved in mask deals
Southgerman newspaper 3-4 minutes
One of the parliamentarians admits that he earned a quarter of a million euros from the business. Several dozen others are also said to have tried to make a profit from it. The affair of allegedly paid mask lobbyists from the Bundestag is widening: As Spiegel reports, at least two other CDU MPs are said to have either asked for a commission for the procurement of protective masks, or are suspected of having been strong in the Federal Ministry of Health for companies from their own constituency to have done and then received favors.
The CDU MP Nikolas Löbel is said to have received a quarter of a million euros in commission.
The parliamentarian from Mannheim offered companies from the health sector to provide them with corona protective masks from a company in Baden-Württemberg for a commission. In an e-mail in which he introduced himself as a member of parliament, he asked for a commission in the event of a delivery:
For every mask that is purchased through him, "I receive 0.12 euros plus VAT from the buyer," wrote Löbel . Löbel confirmed to the news magazine that he had won a chain of retirement homes and a hospital company as customers.
His company earned "remuneration of around a quarter of a million euros" through the sale of masks. "In retrospect, the mediation was wrong," the politician told Spiegel. Almost two dozen MPs got involved in the mask business In another case, the Hessian Bundestag member Hans-Jürgen Irmer (CDU) campaigned for Stone Alliance GmbH from his constituency in Wetzlar, which claims to have delivered masks to the Federal Ministry of Health and was waiting for payment.
At the request of the managing director, Irmer wrote to the head of department Jens Spahn (CDU), "To what extent the Stone Alliance company can be helped," confirmed Irmer when asked by Spiegel. In September 2020, another company owned by the managing director of Stone Alliance placed an ad in the Wetzlar courier. According to the legal notice, the newspaper is published by Hans-Jürgen Irmer.
The company and Irmer deny that the ad was a consideration for the work at Spahn. He writes 500 to 1000 letters a year, said Irmer, and makes sure that "everything goes according to plan". The two MPs are not the only cases of parliamentarians interfering in the mask business. According to the report, almost two dozen of the people's representatives are said to have campaigned for companies. With the exception of Löbel, however, they deny having received anything in return. Last week, the Bundestag lifted the immunity of the Union parliamentary group deputy Georg Nüßlein, who was accused of bribery in the context of procuring masks.
