[naam Franse onderneimng]
When negotiating re-joining Linxtelecom with Messrs [naam voorzitter] and [naam informant] late December 2012, Mr [eiser] informed the two representatives of the Supervisory Board that he in the meantime had negotiated a contract with [naam Franse onderneimng] Electric SA in France and accepted the offer to join [naam Franse onderneimng] .
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Mr. [naam commissaris] doubted whether the contract with [naam Franse onderneimng] would indeed have been for an indefinite period of time and whether the salary offered by [naam Franse onderneimng] was indeed € 302.000, exclusive of a bonus of 30%.
Mr [eiser] informed us that he, before he re-joined Linxtelecom, negotiated employment at [naam Franse onderneimng] Electric SA in France and not in the Netherlands. Mr [eiser] would however, work for [naam Franse onderneimng] based in The Netherlands, reason why the contract offered to him was made out on the letterhead of [naam Franse onderneimng] in Hoofddorp, The Netherlands. Mr [eiser] would have been paid through the payroll system of [naam Franse onderneimng] in The Netherlands, as he informed us.
We have asked Mr [eiser] to provide us with an original copy of the contract he had negotiated with [naam Franse onderneimng] . (…) We have received an unsigned copy of the contract (…) We have initially not been in contact with [naam Franse onderneimng] on the subject, as Mr [eiser] felt that such contact could harm the business interests of Linxtelecom.
Mr [eiser] could not provide us with a signed copy of the contract with [naam Franse onderneimng] . (…)
Mr [eiser] salary at Linxtelecom is presently set at € 307.000, including holiday allowance, per year. According to Mr [naam voorzitter] , with whom we discussed the subject, it was not necessary for Mr [eiser] to convince him and Mr [naam informant] of the salary Mr [eiser] would have received from [naam Franse onderneimng] , as the salary of the former CEO of Linxtelecom was much higher as the salary agreed with Mr [eiser] .
After Mr [eiser] had left Linxtelecom in the meantime, we have contacted [naam Franse onderneimng] Electric. (…) when we asked [naam Franse onderneimng] to study the contract in detail and compare it with a retained copy in [naam Franse onderneimng] ’s administration (…) [naam Franse onderneimng] informed us that not a salary of € 302.000 and a bonus of 60% thereof (…) was offered to Mr [eiser] but a salary of € 172.000 and a yearly bonus of 30% thereof (…)
Mr. [eiser] responded to our findings in his e-mail of 30 May 2013 as follows: “The negotiations with [naam Franse onderneimng] have been a long-term process. There were, amongst others, discussions about the amount of salary and the amount of bonus. The draft employment contract as provided was my view on the negotiable amount of my salary. Linx, however, did not negotiate further in this respect but simply accepted the respective amount, mainly because the mentioned amount was much lower than the salary of the former CEO of Linx.”
The information provided to the members of the Supervisory Board of Linxtelecom when negotiating Mr [eiser] ’ contract with Linxtelecom was therefore not correct. The document provided by Mr [eiser] to the Supervisory Board and later to PWC must therefore be assumed to be falsified.
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[naam Franse onderneimng] : from the documents provided to us and our subsequent contact with [naam Franse onderneimng] it appeared that the document provided to us by Mr [eiser] was falsified and that the information given to the Supervisory Board of Linxtelecom was not correct. (…)”