German prosecutors checks defense Minister – media

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Прокуратура Германии проверяет министра обороны - СМИThe investigators find out the suspect.

The Prosecutor’s office of Berlin checks in relation to the head of the defense Ministry of Germany Ursula von der Leyen due to excessive involvement of the Ministry of external consultants. It is reported by Spiegel.

Prosecutors determine not whether it is in the case of the constant involvement of external consultants to the work of the military Department about the counterfeit business.

According to the representative of the Ministry of justice Martin Steltner, investigators must ascertain whether in this case to talk about suspicion.

Testing began after complaints of Ministers on 30 September from one of the employees of the Ministry. So, according to him, “the Ministry for a long time worked with third party consultants as regular employees.”

Self-employed persons are people who act as independent entrepreneurs, but have only one client. If the check determines that the Ministry had indeed hired such consultants may be running the prosecution.

Similar suspicions arose prior to the Ministry and the Federal audit chamber, which in a confidential report pointed out that the Ministry of defence, for example, in the modernization in the field of information technology depends entirely on the consultants. Moreover, the agreements with them allegedly often conducted on a non-competitive basis and is not profitable from an economic point of view.

According to the newspaper, the contracts of the consultants cost the Ministry of defence to 70 million euros annually.

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