2024-03-30 18:26:16
BOLZANO. The Oberalp Group has decided to file a lawsuit civil case against the Alto Adige Health Authority to obtain the return of 30 million euros anticipated in 2020, at the beginning of the pandemic, for the purchase of personal protective equipment in China. The material is also currently at the center of a criminal investigation.
Oberlap recalls that, four years ago, it was “the political representatives and the management of the health authority” who asked for his intervention for “arescue operation in three phases: organizing contacts with Chinese suppliers, pre-financing the healthcare company’s orders in American dollars and, finally, organizing logistics with Austrian Airlines civil planes”. On that occasion, the company continues to explain head to Heiner Oberrauch, “both the president of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano and the management of the health company promised and stated that the advances paid by the Oberalp Group would be immediately reimbursed if an order was placed”.
Instead, the sums advanced were not returned and, indeed, all attempts at conciliation have failed. The Oberalp Group has therefore decided to appeal to a civil case before the Court of Bolzano for a total amount of approximately 30 million euros. It is “inadmissible and incomprehensible – we read in a note from the group – that a South Tyrolean company with a debt of 30 million euros is left in great difficulty”. “If the health company had been able to organize these flows of money directly to the Chinese suppliers and without the help of Oberalp – continues the note – the 30 million euros would now be recorded as extraordinary expenses for the fight against the pandemic in the health authority’s budget”. Instead, it is Oberalp who, “upon an explicit request for help to succeed in the extraordinary rescue operation, advanced the money on behalf of the health company, now he finds himself a 30 million euro hole in the company balance sheet“. A “hole” which, underlines Oberalp’s note, “puts the future development of the Group at risk and no one in Alto Adige can remain indifferent to this”.
2024-03-30 18:26:16