9 minutes agoGovernment this year to pay 5m euros for passport scandal
Periskopi(9 years ago)
(9 years ago)The biometric passports scandal did not end only by condemning 7 persons to nearly 50 years in prison, since the Court of Arbitrazhi in Paris had ruled that Kosovo has committed legal violations, delaying payments to the Austrian company and sentenced it to 4.99m euros. The debt that was set to turn this company into a [...]
The debt that was set to return to this company in a 14-day term, at the moment with a year's delay, has been introduced as part of a draft law on the budget revision for 2017, which, if passed into the Kosovo Assembly, 5m euros will be awarded to the Austrian company, which took over the production of passports.
In the document that contains Indexline, it is said from the need to review the budget law No. 05,L125, the Finance Ministry proposes these complements and changes to the Budget Law for 2017.
The requirements listed in this document have been identified as necessary to meet, which are a total of 21.
A story with a 1.4m-euro transaction for passports, which were expected to bring Kosovo closer to the European Union in 2014, was concluded with condemnation by the Constitutional Court of Pristina of 7 persons, with nearly 50 years in prison, writes Indexline.
Natali Veliajt's group was charged with organised crime, money laundering, fraud, tax evasion and misuse of confidence, all these accusations related to the contract for producing biometric passports, linked between Austrian company OeSD and MPB.
This tender, worth 14m and 127 thousand and 3.24 euros, was signed on 17 June 2011.
The trial, in addition to the conviction of Veliaj's group, ordered that Natali Veliaj and the noble Blakay together compensate the OeSD company for 1.4m euros.
All the story had started when MPB) in February 2011 opened a tender for biometric passports in May of that year, the Austrian company “Osterreicische Staatsdruckerei” (OeSD).
