Austrian AF Chief Suspended over Eurofighter Contract
Looks more like the government trying to find a legal hole to go to court and try and get out of the contract to me....
DefenseNews: Austria’s Air Force Chief Suspended Over Eurofighter Contract By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, VIENNA Austria’s air force chief has been suspended over irregularities in a 2003 contract to buy 18 Eurofighters planes, Austria’s Defense Minister Norbert Darabos announced April 10. Gen. Erich Wolf had not managed to clear up the suspicions that a lobbyist for the plane’s constructor EADS had paid 87,000 euros (117,000 dollars) to a company owned by Wolf’s wife when the contract was being negotiated. Darabos made the announcement after a private meeting April 10 with Wolf, 58, before the defense ministry’s disciplinary committee. A parliamentary commission launched by the Social Democrats, the environmental Green party and part of the far-right, has been examining the deal since last October. The contract was signed with EADS in 2003 by then Austrian chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel. His successor, Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer, said April 9 that the recent revelations were “to be taken very seriously” and made it more likely that Austria would pull out of or amend the contract. Gusenbauer, a Social Democrat, made a campaign pledge to scrap the Eurofighter contract worth some two billion euros before his election on October 1....... |
87,000 euros (117,000 dollars) to a company owned by Wolf’s wife |
Did BAE mis-take the Air Force chief's wife's company for a Suadi Based company owned by Sultan Bin Nerrer al Haj.
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