Latvijas Pasts postal company director general removed
Latvijas Pasts postal company shareholders general meeting Monday dismissed from the office company director general Aivars Droiskis and two board members over entering in disadvantageous contracts for construction of sorting facility for the postal company.
Latvia’s Transport Ministry deputy state secretary Uldis Laksevics, acting as Latvijas Pasts shareholders general meeting, told reporters Monday the sorting complex arrangements “were highly unsuccessful”.
“The tender has been arranged badly but Droiskis, as the head of the company, was to oversee everything. He had to act in some other way when the contracts were to be closed, hence he has lost trust in him,” said Laksevics.
He noted though that during many years when Droiskis was heading the postal company “many good things also have taken place” but the present situation at the company requires significant changes, which is why a new management for the company is needed.
Laksevics said that assessment of the possible consequences from termination of sorting complex construction contracts is under way, after which a decision will be made whether the contract with the tender winning company, NIA, should be broken.
The initial contractual price offered by NIA was 10.143 million lats (EUR 16 mln), although Latvijas Pasts did not have such an amount. The technical project, worked out after the contract signing, though reduced the costs to 8.46 million lats but the Transport Ministry nevertheless states it did not make amends for closing contract at excessive price.
The new sorting complex whose planned location is near Riga airport is expected to be equipped with advanced mail sorting machines. Works on complex construction were expected to get under way this spring.
(EUR 1 = LVL 0.631)
