Boskalis Accused of Trying to Bribe Officials in South America Also

Officials from the Mauritius Ports Authority (MPA) did they get under-the-table from the Dutch firm to facilitate the granting of contracts for work in the harbor of Port Louis? In any case, the Central CID believes that this happens after graduation, Amsterdam, documents relating to transfers of money this company Maunthrooa Prakash, Siddick Chady and Philippe Gilbert.

The first is a former director of the MPA. He then served as a consultant for Boskalis while the other two are former presidents of the board of this organization. The three are accused of having received large sums of money from the Dutch company to promote it in future contracts. It was then, in 2006, won a contract of Rs 537 million for the MPA dredging of the English Channel, the bay of Port-Louis, to facilitate the arrival of larger vessels.

While the three Mauritians deny the facts and the Central CID expects to hear a leader of the Dutch company, Pieter de Boer, it appears that the company is wet in other transactions not very Catholic South America. A subsidiary of Boskalis in Uruguay, RioVia, is suspected of attempting to bribe officials in this country to promote the extension of a contract for dredging of the Martin Garcia Canal into the River Plate. 

In its edition of May 15, 2012, the MercoPress, online publication of the South Atlantic News Agency, reveals that Argentina has asked Uruguay to investigate the Administrative Commission River Plate (CARP) following allegations of corruption Fanned by the Uruguayan press. A formal letter was sent by the Argentine Foreign Minister, Hector Timmerman, his Uruguayan counterpart, Luis Almagro.

This case is particularly crucial for Argentina as it believes that the channel Martin Garcia, Strategic Uruguay, overshadows the port of Buenos Aires. This facility is served by the Mitre channel on the same river a few tens of kilometers away.

Finally, the river is managed jointly by the two countries through the PRSC, Argentina has established an inquiry into the alleged actions of Boskalis and claimed the same exercise on the part of Uruguay. Especially since the press of Montevideo alleges that the Dutch firm had offered a million dollars to the head of the CARP, the Uruguayan side, to cancel a new tender for canal maintenance Mitre and Martin Garcia. And extend the contract had been awarded.

Various newspapers have reported Uruguayan dinner at the Buenos Aires Jockey Club which offers a million dollars was made to the Uruguayan President of CARP. This has however warned Luis Almagro, the Uruguayan Minister of Foreign Affairs of the proposal after having left the party.

This has become an affair of state to Montevideo as RioVita, a subsidiary of Boskalis is accused of being pro-Argentine, and that its tender for the dredging is approximately $ 19 million. While in front, another Dutch company, Van Oord, demands only $ 9 million for the same work.

Finally with the hubbub surrounding the alleged corruption case, no tender has been launched and is RioVita who sees his contract extended until the end of two investigations by the two countries.

For MercoPress, RioVita remains the big winner in this case and it reveals that the present President of Argentina of CARP is a former diplomat close to the government already splashed in a corruption scandal surrounding the preparation of an Ibero-American Summit in in 2010.