international german employees are standing down over claims they made hundreds of thousands of euros from brokering deals for face masks with more on the scandal here s our europe correspondent. make no bones about it this is a big scandal here in germany pandemic profiteering isn t a look any party wants to be tarnished with and this is part of the ruling coalition here including angela merkel s christian democratic union party the representative of the party nicolas lobel has said he s going to step down at the next election this is after his company allegedly made around a quarter of a 1000000 euro from being the middleman in deals when it came to pee pee and masks during this pandemic may not be good enough for some sort of said he needs to go right now and not wait until the election in the autumn however he said he is sorry for what he s done so far but he isn t the only one that s been involved in this scandal we ve also heard. from the very insistent party the c s u