Wolfsburg (Germany), 09.07.2005 - Peter Hartz, VW-Personalvorstand, hat nach den schweren Vorwürfen in der Korruptions- und Schmiergeldaffäre um den Wolfsburger Autokonzern am gestrigen Freitag, dem 8. Juli, Konsequenzen gezogen und dem Aufsichtrat seinen Rücktritt angeboten. Er wolle damit weiteren Schaden vom Unternehmen abwenden.
In den letzten Tagen war bekannt geworden, dass dem VW-Betriebsrat auf Anweisung von Hartz ein Budget zur freien Verfügung bereit gestellt worden sein soll. Mit diesem Geld seien unter anderem Luxusreisen und Besuche bei Edel-Prostituierten gezahlt worden.
Der Aufsichtsrat hat sich bisher zu Hartz Rücktrittsangebot nicht geäußert. Noch Anfang des Monats hatte sich VW-Aufsichtsratschef Ferdinand Piëch hinter Hartz made. Christian Wulff, Minister President of Lower Saxony, which is the largest Volkswagen shareholder, and member of the Supervisory Board, however, had announced it would not for Peter Hartz or issued for another whitewash. He also expressed at Sabine Christiansen that he will support the resignation of Hartz at the next board meeting.
began to roll after the affair allegations against the former manager of the Czech VW subsidiary Skoda Helmuth Schuster and his staff, Klaus-Joachim G., and the now-retired general works council chairman Klaus Volkert, VW.
Together they have by way of special Front companies in recent years to surreptitiously orders from VW and corporate funds diverted to private accounts. Schuster had passed on a sum of three million euros for its promise to open a factory in India, obtained from an Indian provincial government. The behavior of the Works in contentious decisions had been influenced by more expensive trips and visits to prostitutes. Meanwhile, the public prosecutor
determined by a display of the VW Group. VW itself has announced a full investigation and charged with internal audit, the accounting firm KPMG. + + Wikinews
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