3 Berlin airport builders in graft probe
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THREE of Germany’s biggest companies are facing a fraud investigation related to their work at Berlin’s troubled new airport project, which is already five years behind schedule, a newspaper reported yesterday.
Siemens, Bosch and Deutsche Telekom unit T-Systems are suspected of submitting inflated bills to the company building the BER airport on the outskirts of the German capital, Bild am Sonntag said.
The report, citing internal documents, said the anti-corruption unit of the consortium responsible for the hub has launched a probe into large payments to the three companies approved by BER executives.
The bills date from before the planned 2012 opening, and were requests for extra payments for originally unforeseen services.
Officials hope BER will be operational in late 2017.
Bild said large invoices submitted by the companies for subsequent services were paid “often without question.”
Lawyers for the airport consortium called the rate at which the additional bills were paid “unparalleled and suspicious,” the report said.
Bosch and T-Systems declined to comment, but Bild quoted an airport consortium spokesman as saying that “all payments made since the start of the project will be subject to another overall review.”
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