BER airport: Several manager suspected of fraud – SPIEGEL ONLINE

At the capital airport BER, there are new allegations of fraud. The anti-corruption commissioner Flughafengesellschaft Time determined against several senior executives and German companies, reports the newspaper “Bild am Sonntag”. Called company Bosch, Siemens and the Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Systems.

As the newspaper writes, should be BER executives towards the company Siemens, Bosch and T-Systems have shown conspicuously generous. They are said to have instructed payment of overstated invoices.

Manager of the airport company had approved almost every demand of the three companies without objection to the cancellation of the opening date in mid-2012, reports the newspaper “Bild am Sonntag”, citing internal documents. For example, Siemens has received subsequently EUR 22 million after the company had demanded EUR 22.9 million due to additional services. At T-Systems the BER therefore paid 99 per cent of the additional claims. Such high arrears rates are According to lawyers of the airport company “unique and suspicious,” it says, according to the Journal.

While the companies did not want to comment on the allegations, announced a spokesman of the airport, “to subject all work done since the project began a repeated payments, holistic examination”.

The new technical director of the airport was, according to the newspaper East in charge until a year ago when Siemens Regional Manager for the airport orders of the company.