Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Debacle in Hahn airport deal sets state government under pressure – FAZ – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

The recently announced by the Rhineland-Palatinate state government sale of Hahn Airport threatens to fail. The competent Interior Minister Roger Lewentz (SPD) said on Wednesday in Mainz that Chinese buyers would allow a period set by the country. The company named Shanghai Yiqian Trading Co. Ltd. (SYT) has paid unlike allegedly promised anything yet; as a reason was given for the purchase of the Chinese one is not present approval from the Chinese government. The Rhineland-Palatinate state government then requested documents in order to check the reasoning can. This not arrived.

Timo Frasch Author: Timo Frasch, political correspondent for Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland, headquartered in Wiesbaden.

the SWR had previously nourished doubts about the seriousness of the buyer. A correspondent of the transmitter located at the address of a “Guo Qing Investment Company” a tire sales and a vacant office floor, but not said by the provincial government leading contractors. The majority shareholder of this company is also partner of SYT. Lewentz asked the parliamentary groups to suspend the legislative process for sale now.

The deputy chairman of the CDU parliamentary group, Alexander light, spoke of a “catastrophe cubed”. Overlooking Prime Minister Malu Dreyer (SPD), the had defended the sale, he said. “. the fish begins to stink at the head” Perhaps one must the state government accused Insolvenzverschleppung at Hahn airport that the difficulty in selling would known a few weeks after winning the SPD state election, bordered on fraud.

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the current sale process evokes dark memories of previous attempts to privatize the Nürburgring. At that time in the second half of the 2000s, the state government had embarked on dubious figures and funding models. Light said, apparently was “the Nürburgring disaster used as a blueprint for the tap” been.

Lewentz tried on Wednesday to dispel this impression. The planned privatization was carried out “in a tender procedure in accordance with international standards”. There had been “prepared and accompanied” by the auditing firm KPMG. The SYT have submitted the highest price offered. “With regard to the relevant provisions especially of EU law this company was therefore to grant the award.” The implementation of an integrity check did not reveal any evidence of credit risk or violations of the law.

Lewentz emphasized that one is to remain “in an ongoing contractual relationship” with the buyer, the latter had expressly promised to want to escrow. Why – why that? – He ask for your understanding that it for any further questions – why more? There was no – could not be available.

The fractions of the traffic light coalition gave then known, they would interrupt the legislative process for Hahn Airport. The advice of the bill should be removed from the agenda of a planned joint meeting of the four advisory committees, a scheduled hearing should be postponed. “Instead, we propose that, scheduled joint meeting of the committees to be used for a detailed report of the Minister of the Interior,” it said.

What sounds consensus obscures that especially the FDP, which is new to the government , about the recent evolution is not happy. Your Economy Minister Volker Wissing said in a press release just so authentic that it does not have to be regarded as an affront to the coalition partners: “The sales process of Hahn Airport should be suspended, after doubts about the reliability of the buyer have occurred,” it said. “The issues that now need to be clarified quickly by the body responsible for the sale process of the Interior. The rooster and the region need certainty about the future of the airport. “

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