The Causa Casinos now focuses on the CV of ex-FPÖ district politician Peter Sidlo. According to the news magazine “profil”, the personnel consultants of Egon Zehnder Sidlos do not see the activity at the listed conwert as leading as he portrayed it. Sidlo said he hadn’t prettied anything.
Specifically, it is about “that he and the CEO were responsible for a capital increase amounting to 413 million euros”. According to “profil”, the personnel consultants see no leading activity in Sidlos. On January 10, 2019, they carried out a “CV analysis” and an “analysis of management skills” with Sidlo in the course of his application for the casino board.
“No final lead function”
According to “profil”, Egon Zehnder managing director Raimund Steiner stated in his testimony with the Economic and Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (WKStA) on November 27, 2019 that Sidlo “in our perception had an accompanying function in the capital increase and had no final lead function. Today I can no longer say what he did. “
The next day, Egon Zehnder authorized representative Gerald Klenner testified. Sidlo “pointed to his work at conwert, where he was involved in a capital increase and was the main manager of the project. (…) I checked his details myself in a reference interview. It turned out that his focus was on creating prospectuses and communicating with investors. In my opinion, he did the project coordination, we could not verify a management of the content. “
Sidlo himself sees his CV in no way polished. “I spoke about this corporate action in an interview, my information was checked by Egon Zehnder, and I was ultimately certified by Egon Zehnder as having a high level of capital market expertise. It was not and is not necessary to preheat this area and it does not correspond to the facts, ”he told“ profil ”. Sidlo is taking legal action against his dismissal as CFO of the casinos and is making claims of 2.3 million euros.
Report defends vacation days billing at Hoscher
The “Standard” (weekend edition), meanwhile, reports on details from the casino’s internal audit report from the law firm Schima Mayer Starlinger and KPMG, which the casino board found no wrongdoing with the premature replacement and new orders. For example, the compensation for 108 days of vacation from ex-casino board Dietmar Hoscher with EUR 651,207 gross (EUR 6,030 per day) was legal. Hoscher will remain with the casinos until mid-2022, but has been released.
That the vacation was paid out and not consumed was the result of the contract negotiations with Hoscher, the supervisory board had not committed any misconduct. The 300,000 euro report says: “Perhaps one could have negotiated a little harder here.” On the other hand, accepting the replacement service was “a sure way” to avoid a legal dispute.
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