There are doubts as to whether the reconnaissance officer in the Federal Ministry of Health (BMG), Margaretha Sudhof (SPD), which processes around the procurement of Corona masks checked impartially in spring 2020. Sudhof’s report puts the head of the Union faction, Jens Spahn (CDU), under pressure, which was then Minister of Health at the time. An internal file note that has now appeared from the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWE) of June 30 of this year suggests that the investigator could not adhere to interminister and may have torn out of context and even false. This Tuesday, the Bundestag’s budget committee meets on this topic and also wants to listen to Sudhof. In the file note, which the F.A.Z. It is said that, contrary to a clear agreement, Sudhof has cited literally in two places in her mask report from a document sent by the Ministry of Economic Affairs on December 3, 2024. The house of Katherina Reiche (CDU) complains in an unusually sharp form: “In this 1.) the impression that the BMWE would have referred to the mask procurement of the BMG in its explanations, and 2.) a text passage deliberately falsifies and yet reproduced as a literally quote to suggest a positioning of the BMWe that did not exist.” Sudhof report on price right. It examines whether the BMG under Spahn may have disregarded the price ordinance for public orders and whether it is therefore reported to deal with premium test authorities (F.A.Z. dated June 6). The question has relevance for the value in dispute in dozens of legal proceedings of mask dealers against the BMG. It is about 2.3 billion euros plus interest and procedural costs. Sudhof’s client, Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach (SPD) had always announced that it would minimize the damage to the federal government. “Provided wrong quote” According to the file note, “BMG / Ms. Sudhof” urged the BMWE document “to bring in on current legal proceedings”. The Ministry of Economic Affairs in January 2025 rejected this at the state secretary level. Reich’s house makes it clear that the competent presentation “has never been expressed in particular on the procurement of the BMG, but only generally for the application of the price right”. The reference to the masks was explicitly rejected. A “demonstrably wrong quote” was that the Ministry of Economic Affairs advised to “deal with the responsible inspection authorities,” it says. “Such advice has not taken place.” The quotes from the specialist department of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, which are now accessible on page 131, “are in the original in different paragraphs and have different references”. By reducing and an introduction, the admission was “deliberately false”. The ministries involved in the process, including the BMG responsible for Sudhof, did not want to comment on the file note on Monday. The Sudhof report suggests that the Ministry of Health under Spahn did not know or ignored important parts of the price right. It is primarily about Regulation PR No. 30/53 “About the prices for public orders”, according to which “legal transactions that violate the maximum price principle are void in relation to the inadmissible price”. Criticism of Jens Spahnim Fall of a market failure could be permitted. This is exactly what has to be clarified first for every single transaction. As far as the particularly controversial and processed open procurement paths (open-house) are concerned, the investor’s paper is determined: “This award could also have been inadmissible due to the price law regulations and also not allowed.” 4.50 EUR (net) not only exceeds the recommendations of the specialist level by around 37 percent. The appeal to the Federal Ministry of Economics on questions of the price regulation could now get a crack.
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