Millions Deviation at Meyer Werft: Investigation on Consequences Completed

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By dpa Last year, the federal and state governments invested in the struggling Meyer Werft shipyard in Papenburg. Additional costs of €185 million were only subsequently revealed. What did management know? more...

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Papenburg (dpa/lni) – Shortly after the entry of the federal government and the state into the affected Meyer Werft, it became known that the cruise ship builder had to reckon with higher costs than initially assumed. According to a spokesman of the Lower Saxony Ministry of Economics, a legal opinion now states that neither the owners nor the management knew about these deviations at that time and did not act negligently. "The state government h…

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The policy had only just decided to save the Meyer Werft in Papenburg with a lot of tax money, a million problem arose. Was this previously concealed? The federal government and the state of Lower Saxony had to examine possible legal consequences. Now the result is available.