NS puts drivers Qbuzz inactive – NU.nl

This was reported by the company on Tuesday.

After an internal investigation revealed that the directors of Qbuzz / Abellio Netherlands have received confidential information from a former employee of Veolia Transport Limburg.

went for information about the public tender for public transport in the province of Limburg for 2016 to 2031. Veolia dong also along to that command. Last March was Abellio Limburg, a subsidiary of NS, the concession.

Possibly made by Abellio information more likely to contract, but could not determine NS in the study.

NS briefed the Province of Limburg and says to accept the consequences. “Any decision taken by the Province of Limburg to Abellio Limburg to exclude from the tender will be respected by the train completely.”

The parent company is now investigating whether to measures also being taken against a number of other staff involved .

Solicitation

Qbuzz the former employee of Veolia hired through an intermediary. But this man was tied to a competition clause. But that is circumvented in construction, so he could still work for Qbuzz.

“This employee has Qbuzz, solicited and unsolicited, with information about Veolia, while he was still employed by Veolia and also afterwards. ” The man worked between January and May 1, 2014 still at Veolia

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Concealment

Annemarie South Mountain, one of the Qbuzz directors who has been inactive, argues that NS CEO Timo Huges to conceal her requested things.

She says Tuesday against Yahoo! News that they could not tell the whole truth to the people who investigated the fraud. “80 percent of the truth is the truth,” he would have said.

The suspended

executives say that the use of the former Veolia employee is reviewed by the legal department of the NS and that he has been nominated. But according to the parent company or not.

At the height

The senior management of the NS would have been fully aware of the use of this employee during the tender. Also speaking at NS.

The CEO of NS was informed of the intention to take the man into service after Abellio Limburg had won the concession, according to the company.

He would not have known about providing the secret information. In the NS leadership was not known that he was already hired through a structure.

Shocked

NS claims to be shocked by the results of the internal investigation and calls the irregularities ” totally unacceptable, reprehensible and contradictory to the culture where NS stands for “. There had, according to the company’s “response must be to watch sharper.”

The company apologizes for the affairs of the subsidiary. The excuses are specifically addressed to the Province of Limburg and Veolia.

NS has the report (pdf) about the irregularities put online. “We pay conscious attention to here and try to be as transparent as possible by putting the entire report online,” leaves a railway spokesperson to NU.nl.

There are no indications that there were irregularities other bids, but the NS will investigate it anyway “to err on the side of caution”

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By: NU.nl/ANP