2.16.Bij brief van 23 februari 2022 heeft GW UK aan [naam verweerder] bericht dat zij voornemens is hem op staande voet te ontslaan als statutair bestuurder van RRF en de vier zustervennootschappen op basis van de volgende ontslaggronden:
“ In summary, the following reasons exist for your intended instant dismissals – both considered separately and in conjunction:
1. Your role in the irregularities with invoices and/or rosters that were sent to ProRail as alleged evidence of alleged damages incurred by Rotterdam Rail Feeding B.V. (“RRF”) in order to try and claim additional compensations from ProRail for the Waalhaven Restriction;
2. Your role in communications with ProRail regarding the attempts on behalf of RRF to claim additional compensations for the Waalhaven Restriction;
3. Your lack of oversight and leadership, while being Managing Director, in discussions with ProRail on such a material subject as (additional) compensations from ProRail to RRF for the Waalhaven Restriction;
4. Your lack of oversight and leadership, while being Managing Director, in relation to inappropriate communications with RRF’s contractors, inter alia following (i) strict instructions that were sent to them on behalf of RRF to include irregularities on their invoices if they wanted to have these paid, and (ii) a request for a meeting from one of RRF’s contractors who claimed he had “to issue (invoices for shifts) while those days were not worked in that way”;
5. Undesirable behavior internally and/or externally, inter alia consisting of:
(i) Creating a culture of fear within RRF, leading to the situation where some employees felt they could not raise concerns in respect of the behavior of yourself or the CFO without serious repercussions for themselves and some employees filed complaints that you did not take seriously;
(ii) Forwarding a complaint filed against the CFO directly to the CFO with comments such as: “I’m really not going to spend time on this kind of NSB (Nationaal-Socialistische Beweging) notifications. (…) But anyway, nothing new under the sun are some real morons walking around that we just have to ignore to death and they will make a mistake and then exit”;
(iii) Forwarding e-mails of external investigators Sagiure and Trip to the CFO although you were explicitly requested not to;
(iv) Profanity and making denigrating remarks about external parties, such as RRF-customers SBB Carbo and KombiRail Europe and rail manager ProRail, and/or behavior towards third parties that is unprofessional and not in accordance with how RRF should act towards such parties;
(v) Your response to ProRail when it accused the CFO of instigating forgery with comments such as: “if you want war you can get it, see you in court and catch further up on social media”;
6. Your lack of cooperation during the internal investigation performed by Sagiure and Trip, which investigation was the immediate result of allegations by ProRail of fraud and falsification by the Executive Board of RRF (for which it filed a police report that led to an investigation by the Public Prosecutions Department);
7. As a result of your aforesaid behavior, which is not consistent with the applicable GWI Code of Ethics and GWI Core Values, you have shown that you are no longer worthy of our trust.
For a full overview of the existing reasons for your intended instant dismissals, we refer to the final investigation report as drafted by Sagiure and Trip on 11 February 2022 (…) and specifically, but not limited to, paragraph 11.6.D of that report.”
Voorts is [naam verweerder] in die brief vrijgesteld van werkzaamheden en is hij uitgenodigd voor de aandeelhoudersvergaderingen van RRF en de vier zustervennootschappen op 11 maart 2022, alwaar het voorgenomen ontslagbesluit als agendapunt is opgenomen.