How vulnerable is the Berlin Airport? – Hamburger Abendblatt

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 By Daniela Stürmlinger

 Following the insolvency of the building chandler Imtech the opening of the airport could be further delayed. 600 employees in Hamburg worried

                 Hamburg / Berlin. “We can only hope,” said an employee of the insolvent building services provider Imtech in Hamburg. “Perhaps the liquidator can save the company and jobs.” On Friday at 11 Clock liquidator Peter Alexander Borchardt has throughout Germany 4200 employees of the company, including 600 in Germany headquarters in Hamburg, in a telephone conference on the bankruptcy petition on Thursday informed. Many employees reacted taken, finally, the group for months is already in difficulties. Even the salary of employees was paid late in July. After the bankruptcy, the salaries are now secured until the end of October through the insolvency allowance.

Despite the bankruptcy, the investigation of various prosecutors proceed against the company. According to Nana From Bach, spokeswoman for the Hamburg public prosecutor’s office, the authority intends to take at least eight people to preliminary investigations. Among these are mainly former managers. Check wants the authority whether there had been at Imtech in Germany the offense of embezzlement, accounting fraud and so-called quite gratuitous transfers. Under these facts fall, for example, payment of false invoices, thus amounts behind which there are no benefits. Whether this was the case for Imtech, the Authority intends to examine, as the offense of price fixing.

Imtech had acknowledged in February that the company was under suspicion cartel. In this context, there were searches in the office building of the supplier industry. It was about the suspected cartels, the “Handelsblatt”.

The bankruptcy of the company brings the timetable for completion of the Berliner airport probably again messed up. It should be clear from the viewpoint of the airport company Berlin-Brandenburg, the collapse of Imtech have an impact on plans for the completion of construction work in March 2016 will, said airport manager Karsten Mühlenfeld. He has now set up a Task Force to assess the economic, technical, legal and operational technical consequences of the insolvency proceedings. Vice-chairman of the board Rainer Bretschneider said that development must be taken very seriously. The Project Committee of the Supervisory Board will meet shortly to. The chairman of the Berlin committee of inquiry to the airport, Martin Delius (Pirate Party), said: “I believe that the opening date for critically endangered.”

“Imtech was one of the major construction companies for the site” said Mühlenfeld. The bankruptcy will affect the plans, parts of Imtech employees are already not come on Friday to the site. “Whether and to what extent also affect the opening date in the second half of 2017 are given, the Task Force shall review now.” The Dutch Imtech parent company announced that it is now examining the situation and the possible consequences. Imtech Germany boss Felix Colsman lose his post on the Management Board, but keep the lead in Germany.

Imtech is responsible for the multi-delayed major projects for major electrical, plumbing and ventilation work. Former airport technology chief Horst Amann, the company had designated the Berlin committee of inquiry as a “key business” for the project. Amann’s successor Jörg Marks and the airport’s supervisory board had decided in March to work despite ongoing corruption investigations continue with Imtech.

Martin Delius (pirates), head of the Berlin airport inquiry committee, accused the management failure before. One would be long to be separated from Imtech. He pointed to a multi-million dollar advance, the Imtech got the end of 2012. “I warned already in connection with the bribery allegations against making itself dependent on Imtech We face the problem. We either make ourselves more dependent in that they want to have more money to avoid bankruptcy Or we allow that. the company gets from the field because they do not want to accept responsibility for any warranty claims, “the Brandenburg CDU transport expert Rainer Genilke.