> TI’s Germany chapter cited last year’s so-called mask affair as a prime example of the kind of corruption that Germany remains vulnerable to. Two conservative lawmakers resigned after it was revealed they used their political connections to earn about two million euros ($2.3 million) in a public deal buying masks for the pandemic.
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> In November, a court in Munich found both not guilty, ruling that the accusations against them did not meet Germany’s legal standard for corruption. The former MPs said the payments were the fee they earned as lawyers helping negotiate the deal.
The worst is always when there is no penalty for the corruption. You should have to repay the money with interest, pay a fine on top of that, and go to jail.
Otherwise, you need to ask if the system is deliberately set up to allow the corruption.
>Major financial scandals like cum-ex tax evasion and the Wirecard probe (which has found Germany’s former finance minister and current Chancellor Olaf Scholz at fault)
How much was he at fault with those two scandals? Also, if he was at fault then why is he chancellor?
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> TI’s Germany chapter cited last year’s so-called mask affair as a prime example of the kind of corruption that Germany remains vulnerable to. Two conservative lawmakers resigned after it was revealed they used their political connections to earn about two million euros ($2.3 million) in a public deal buying masks for the pandemic.
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> In November, a court in Munich found both not guilty, ruling that the accusations against them did not meet Germany’s legal standard for corruption. The former MPs said the payments were the fee they earned as lawyers helping negotiate the deal.
The worst is always when there is no penalty for the corruption. You should have to repay the money with interest, pay a fine on top of that, and go to jail.
Otherwise, you need to ask if the system is deliberately set up to allow the corruption.
>Major financial scandals like cum-ex tax evasion and the Wirecard probe (which has found Germany’s former finance minister and current Chancellor Olaf Scholz at fault)
How much was he at fault with those two scandals? Also, if he was at fault then why is he chancellor?