Uitspraak
[appellant],
Airbus,
1.Het verdere verloop van de procedure in hoger beroep
2.De feiten en het geschil
MBB CE fraud case | involvement of AIRBUS and Deutsche Bank". De e-mail heeft zij doorgestuurd aan dertien leden van de raad van commissarissen van Deutsche Bank. In de e-mail staat onder andere het volgende te lezen:
"To keep a long story short, Hilverwood Holding B.V. (my company and the holder of the EUR 14,5 million MBB CE bearer bonds) agreed a Cooperation & Settlement Agreement with MBB CE in April 2015. In this Agreement MBB CE would compensate me for my bonds and additional damages in exchange for the following cooperation: (…).
At that time I did not know about the fraudulent role of AIRBUS/MBB CE in this case.
I found out later, after further research that I started after MBB filed for insolvency shortly after we agreed to the aforementioned Cooperation & Settlement Agreement.
Meanwhile, it became clear to me that MBB CE appears to be a cover for disguising illegal practices of AIRBUS, namely allowing customers of AIRBUS airplanes to get higher on the delivery list by ‘buying’ MBB CE bonds on the Frankfurter Stock Exchange. In my vocabulary this is bribery and/or corruption. In itself not so bad, but unfortunately the construction is not waterproof, so that there are victims like me. And that is unacceptable.
(…)
It has become a complex fraud where many ‘reputable’ parties are consciously or unconsciously involved and ingeniously put together by top managers from AIRBUS and Deutsche Bank. However, not so ingenious that I could not find out. There are always people who talk and they come from the inner circle of AIRBUS/MBB CE, Deutsche Bank and its client who is in jail at the moment. And of course it does not help if people get fired as a result of this fraud. To stay together as a team, is the only approach that would have worked.
3.Het geschil en de beoordeling in hoger beroep
21 januari 2020.