journalists like oliver shoreham were stirring up a lot of dirt as they investigated the story and things were about to get even dirtier. back to berlin an important place in the comic saga germany's political establishment has come in for heavy criticism over its handling of the scandal. when you meant those houses if someone leaves the door of the house open so these can wander in and out and they're partly responsible if there's a burglary of a school with come x. this they feel blatantly discuss it has to be dealt with people need to take political responsibility but. the 1st signs of that failure came early on in 1992 an official in the economy ministry of the state of has reported the 1st comics transactions 10 years passed and nothing happened. by 2002 at the latest the german government was aware of comics the association of german banks sent a letter to the finance ministry drawing attention to comics dealers. at the time the finance minister was hans i should of the center left social democrats he's the only former finance minister to agree to an interview he wasn't at the helm