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PostBus case: the former Federal Councilor …

Former Federal Councilor Doris Leuthard, implicated in the PostBus case, defends herself on Tuesday. A recently discovered letter suggests that it was complicit in the illegal transfer of subsidized regional transport costs and products to other sectors.

I know nothing about this alleged letter and it is not on file.

Doris Leuthard, former Federal Councilor.

“I know nothing about this alleged letter and it is not on file,” said the former head of the Federal Department of Transport to the newspapers of the press group CH-Media. It must be a collaborator project, she explains.

The Neue Zürcher Zeitung reported on Monday that it had received a draft letter from Ms. Leuthard, which already in 2011 stated contradictory objectives between the strategic objectives of the Federal Council aimed at ensuring PostBus profitability and the ban on business to make profits in subsidized areas.

Departures series

If the transport department had been informed of the PostBus financial package, “we certainly would not have tolerated it and we would have acted immediately,” said the former Christian Democrat minister on Tuesday. She also pointed out that the Federal Office of Transport itself discovered PostBus’ actions.

The La Poste subsidiary subsidy fraud scandal broke out in February 2018. The affair led to a series of departures, including the resignation of La Poste general manager Susanne Ruoff in June 2018.

All members of the PostBus board of directors have been dismissed and the division has been reorganized. Financially, PostBus reimbursed around 205 million francs in undue subsidies to the Confederation, the cantons and the municipalities.

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