Former TCN-ceo Rudy Stroink is prosecuted for bribing a director of Google around the 'small' data center in Eemshaven.
He would have with his company, TCN 1.7 million euros in bribes have been paid to Google’s director, Simon Tusha, who at the time was responsible for Google’s global business location policy. This revealed the Financieele Dagblad on Thursday. Tusha was previously a united states district court for the evasion of tax on the received bribe. Tusha has, according to media in the U.S. debt known.
Bribery and money laundering
The prosecution has Stroink and his current wife, Saskia van B. summoned. The case begins Monday in the court of Almelo, the netherlands started with a regiezitting. The couple become suspicious of bribery, money laundering, forgery and membership of a criminal organisation. Stroink denied in the FD involvement in the case.
The issue is not the new big datahotel that Google is about a week and a half in the Eemshaven open. The data centre where the will of TCN and was at the end of 2006 built. It is suggested that Stroink Tusha paid to the construction of this datahotel achievements to get.
The payments to Tusha, however, were between 5 July 2008 and 26 march 2010 performed so well after the construction of that datahotel. Tusha was at the time of construction is not even in the service of Google, according to the FD he would be there in 2008 have begun.
Bust
TCN wrong in 2008 – the crisis had just begun – is already in serious trouble. The real estate company wanted projects to sell and in that time there was a kandidaatkoper for both datahotels, that TCN in the port of Eemshaven and the city of Groningen had and has. There was negotiated an amount of around 90 million euro, which TCN, approximately 30 million gain in return. That amount would be the salvation for TCN have been, that finally in 2012 went bankrupt.
In the period referred to extended Google of the lease contract with TCN for the data center from three to ten years, as confirmed by the American company. The end of 2006, drawn up contract ended instead of at the end of 2009 by the end of 2016. So now. That multi-year lease contract had a positive effect on the selling price, especially if the tenant Google hot. TCN remained with the datacenter because the overvraagd would have on the kandidaatkoper.
No imagosmet at Eemshaven
The chance that the smeergeldaffaire around the 'small' data center in Eemshaven image yields by the NOM despise.
Board member Sander Oosterhof of the Northern Development agency (NOM) gets the shoulders. He found earlier that the FD reputational damage increases, because the newspaper that the smeergeldaffaire revealed, suggested it to the new one about a week and a half to open Google data center would go. Oosterhof: ,,When there on that new data center was negotiated, it was TCN have long gone bankrupt.'
in other words: from a bankrupt company could not pay bribes to be paid. In addition, the kickbacks between 2008 and 2010, paid out and that was well before Google mid 2014 decided in the Eemshaven a private datahotel to build.
Victim
Google, incidentally, are a victim to feel in the whole issue. The 1.7 million euros in bribes ended up in bank accounts of Simon Tusha, a former employee, who between 2008 and 2009, Google was employed as a strategic negociator (strategic negotiator) of Google’s Global Infrastructure Group. And Google emphasizes yet again that talks about the new data center started after the departure of Simon Tusha. He was not involved', in a press release reported. ,,And TCN is not at all involved.'
Google said in the first phase of the new large datahotel, e.g. the NOM and Groningen Seaports. The latter club also gets all the shoulders on to any image. ,,It is a matter between TCN and Google, and there are zero comma zero been involved in,' says the spokesman.
lot of demand for data space
The NOM expected absolutely not the parties kopschuw will be to go to the Eemshaven. There is too much demand for data space, says Oosterhof. The data center capacity every year, with 30 percent to be generous, he paints the expectations. Oosterhof: ,,That is unbelievable.'
on Behalf of TCN is ex-ceo Rudy Stroink in the verdachtenbank, together with his current wife, Saskia van B. The executive officers of the TCN SIG in Groningen were, say anything to have known of corrupt payments. The current mayor of Den Helder and Groningens ex-alderman Koen Schuiling was from 2006 to 2009, worked at TCN SIG. Through a spokesman, he know nothing to have inherited' of issues of TCN’s datacenter.
I stand with open mouth’
Former director of the Edzo Bergman was at the time of the affair all the way at TCN SIG, he left in January 2007. ,,The deals with Google at that time were settled from Utrecht,' says Bergman. He says he doesn’t understand why TCN to Google would pay: ,,At the time of payment had TCN, Google already has within. I just don’t get that, I stand with open mouth.' A declaration would therefore be the renewal of the lease.
Bergman says never to have understood why Stroink praised as 'mister clean'. ,,The man kept a private plane, but within the company was the Toyota Prius, touted,' he says schaterlachend. ,,And then there was that frantic dog of him that TCN is afficheerde.' TCN showed that dog to show up in all image statements.
Bergman: ,,Stroink always knew the impression of an idealistic man to rouse, but eventually went with him as with other vastgoedlui just to hard coins.'
pedestal cases
Rudy Stroink (60) fell a few years ago of his foot, when TCN Property Projects, such as his vastgoedconcern in full was called, crashed. Stroink was a long time vastgoedgeweten of the Netherlands and suggested even that he is a zakenkabinet the minister of environment would want to be.
Stroink rose in december 2010 retired as director of TCN. Two years later the company went under. But at the time of his departure had the vastgoedconcern all problems. Stroink estimated value of TCN previously at € 2.5 billion.
Unorthodox ideaa
The real estate entrepreneur he held unorthodox ideas. He wanted to, if he ever minister would be, the mortgage interest deduction elimination. Because that was, according to him, 'grant on the expensive living'. He was known as 'mister clean'.
He was also by the documentary makers of Backlighting throughout his TCN-period. There was a picture of an honest vastgoedman who are vulnerable dared to propose to his personnel.
Documentary
by Mid-2010, was even made a documentary under the title The land of Stroink, his motivation as idealistic vastgoedman highlighted, but also acknowledged the relationship with his father, the SS in German krijgsdienst went.
Stroink gave this newspaper also opinions on the stalled project Blauwestad. The plots were, according to him, in the sale, because the quality went Blauwestad it just won’t do: ,,There is a future, because it is there and then you should finish it.'
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