An employee of the DT subsidiary Telekom Technik GmbH is suspected of having accepted bribes. Therefore, the State Criminal Police Office of North Rhine-Westphalia carried out 40 house searches on Tuesday morning and also had various bank lockers opened. The reason is the results of investigations following a complaint from Deutsche Telekom itself.
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Deutsche Telekom is investing a lot of money in the course of fiber optic expansion. Your subsidiary called Telekom Technik GmbH repeatedly commissions outside companies to carry out construction work. A 37-year-old employee responsible for this in Bonn is said to have repeatedly commissioned a Duisburg construction company, which in return is said to have secretly given him three percent of the contract amount. In total, a mid-six-figure amount is said to have been raised. According to dpa, a total of ten people, mostly from the construction industry, are being investigated for “corruption and bribery in commercial transactions in a particularly serious case”.
Whistleblower gab Tipp
According to Telekom, an attentive colleague initially anonymously gave an internal tip-off. If the allegations are confirmed, the company’s whistleblower system has worked as it should. In any case, the suspicion was confirmed, which is why the company finally filed a complaint.
The State Criminal Police Office has been investigating since the fall (-), initially covertly, now openly. In addition to the suspected Telekom employee’s workplace, other company and residential properties were searched. The officials seized documents and also had assets frozen.
As of the end of February, fiber optic cables from Deutsche Telekom were available to 12.8 million households, companies and authorities in Germany (“homes passed”) – one million more than at the end of September. However, only around a sixth are likely to actually use the offer. The number of broadband connections operated by Deutsche Telekom overall, including DSL, actually fell slightly last year.
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