Financial Times: Germany finance ministry probed over suspected obstruction of justice

Financial Times: Germany finance ministry probed over suspected obstruction of justice[1]

"German prosecutors have raided the country’s finance ministry as part of an investigation into alleged obstruction of justice, in a move that could prove embarrassing for Olaf Scholz, the finance minister and frontrunner to succeed Angela Merkel as chancellor. The raids on both the finance and justice ministries are part of an investigation that started in February last year into the Financial Intelligence Unit, a unit of German customs which is the government’s main anti-money laundering agency. (...)

Fabio De Masi, an MP for the hard-left Die Linke party, said the FIU was a “security risk for Germany”. “We need a financial police with forensic expertise . . . Germany is a gangster’s paradise,” he said."

Links:

1. https://www.ft.com/content/f990f730-50a8-4544-9648-056965ea768b