The VW group has apparently shadowed the supplier Prevent. This is reported by the “Bild am Sonntag”. According to a lawyer from the VW purchasing department on the law firm Hogan Lovells have commissioned a Berlin security company, from March 2017 to obtain information on a total of 37 “target persons”.
Among them were members of the owner family, several executives of the subsidiaries and also three lawyers of the group of companies. As the newspaper further reports, the private investigators also visited residential addresses and documented their observations in dossiers. The process was therefore at VW under the code name “Duke” run.
The supplier had one in August 2016 violent dispute with VW delivered , Due to a major order that had been canceled, two German subsidiaries of the Bosnian Prevent Group placed their deliveries in the short term in August Volkswagen Corporation. For days were therefore in the VW works in Wolfsburg and in Emden the tapes are still. The group should have cost then a three-digit million amount. Meanwhile, the car maker has terminated the supply contracts without notice. Prevent then had to cancel jobs.
“Over the target”
“We have in the exceptional situation at that time, in which Prevent had brought us through unlawful delivery stops in a predicament, research on the group in order,” said a VW spokesman “Bild am Sonntag” to the allegations. This has hoped for more transparency about the structures and networks. “According to our findings, the search of the service provider has always been carried out in accordance with the legal requirements,” said the spokesman.
However, companies say that the investigation may have “overshoot the target”. Of the new VW boss Herbert Diess should immediately have the corporate audit turned on to clarify the process.
A spokesman for the supplier Prevent said on request: “Should these allegations be confirmed, we expect the new VW leadership to clearly distance themselves from such business practices in the future.”