BERLIN (Germany) – Armin Laschet, the conservative candidate to succeed Angela Merkel as Germany’s chancellor in this month’s election, demanded an apology from his Social Democrat rival on Saturday for criticising a money-laundering probe which included raids on his ministry.
Prosecutors raided the finance and justice ministries on Thursday as part of an investigation into the government’s anti-money laundering agency, shining a spotlight on Germany’s failings in tackling financial crime.
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