According to the Public Prosecutor (OM) is 1.7 million euro was paid to the data center of Google in the port of Eemshaven to maintain. It continues the former owner Rudy Stroink of the bankrupt former real estate developer TCN for the bribery of a director of the American technology company.
Stroink need to Monday for the court in Almelo appear. Also his wife is called. The couple is suspected of bribery, money laundering, forgery and membership of a criminal organisation.
Wednesday 6 of december of this year opens Google in a new, large data centre in Groningen and Eemshaven. According to the FD, the smeergeldaffaire to do with this, but that is not so. It is a earlier by TCN, built, smaller data center, such as the Volkskrant also writes. This newspaper reports that the suspicious payments between July 2008 and march 2010 have taken place and for the benefit of Google-director Simon Tusha. That would be the contract with TCN, have extended.
Tusha was at Google, responsible for the choice of location of new data centers, and was earlier this year for a Us court. He is indicted for receiving bribes and tax evasion. Tusha had also a 1.5 million dollar make bribing to the choice of a British datacenter. The former Google director depends in that case five-year cell over the head. In the Dutch corruption investigation is Google’s director Tusha also classified as those that bribe would have assumed.
Old-owner Stroink denies involvement in the case. The TCN group went in 2012, almost entirely bankrupt. The group operated a number of data centers, but the company behind the data centers in Groningen and Eemshaven (Google) did not go bankrupt.
This article comes from Computable.nl (https://www.computable.nl/artikel/5886400). © Jaarbeurs IT Media.
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