NEOS: the ÖVP, FPÖ and SPÖ are obviously not interested in enlightenment

Vienna (OTS) – Stunned and horrified NEOS-group leader Michael Bernhard shows up on the latest developments in the Eurofighter Committee of inquiry: The majority of the ÖVP, the FPÖ and the SPÖ refused in the evening, the NEOS-application for a new charge of Undersecretary Edwin Wall.

„This is after the today’s sitting is absolutely incomprehensible,“ says Bernhard. Because the first survey of the day had ended with a Bang: major General Hans Hamberger, who heads not only the Revision in the Ministry of defence, but also the Task Force’s Eurofighter, said at the end of his survey, for the Ministry of defence competent contract negotiator and signatory Edwin Wall was two days before the signing of the contract on 30. June 2003 EADS managers. This would prove a note of Airbus ‚ attorneys, which was only found now, said Hamberger. On the day before the signing of the contract Wall got opened by the Revision of the Ministry of defence already sanctioned and sealed the contract, it „on the signature prepare“. The result of this „preparation“ was that in the contract, then all of a sudden, the so-called right to substitute a stand – the deterioration in the value of the contract in the extreme, while the purchase price remained the same.

„If this is true, has been the chief negotiator of the Republic of Austria the day before the contract is signed to ensure that EADS will be a massive advantage given,“ says Michael Bernard.

In order to clarify these explosive new allegations, the NEOS requested that the re-loading of Undersecretary Edwin Wall, apart from Daniela Holzinger-Vogt Huber of the list Now but no one has approved the application. „The justification of the governing parties and the SPÖ, Edwin Wall, has already several times before the investigation Committee, more than a flimsy excuse,“ says Bernhard. „Finally, a completely new, solid allegations are on the table now! If this is not a good reason for a new charge, I don’t know. But, apparently, ÖVP, FPÖ and SPÖ have simply no interest in real education. This is very sad and makes the usefulness of this, in our opinion, so important and so far very successful Committee, unfortunately, difficult question,“ says Bernhard.

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