March 7 () –
The General Inspectorate of the Treasury of Portugal has resolved this Monday to dismiss the leadership of the airline TAP Air, specifically the until now general director of the company, Christine Ourmières Widener, and the president, Manuel Beja.
The body has also ruled the return of compensation of 500,000 euros that the former administrator of the company Alexandra Reis received last year, an amount that is too high as the inspection now verifies and of which Reis will have to return about 450,000 euros, according to reports ‘Newspaper’.
Luís Rodrigues now assumes the positions of Chairman of the Board of Directors and of the Executive Committee of TAP, vacant after the dismissals.
The Finance Minister, Fernando Medina, celebrated the resolution of the case at a press conference, which had broken “the relationship of trust between TAP and the country”, while acknowledging that “it was desirable that the controversy had not occurred”. , “but he did”.
Reis, who had gone on to work as Secretary of State for the Treasury and resigned from her post after only a month in office as a result of the controversy that erupted when the case became known, has announced that she will abide by the inspection’s decision.
“Although I do not agree with the opinion of the General Inspectorate of Finance and nothing obliges me to do so, I reaffirm what I always said I would do: of my own free will, I will return what the inspection indicates, regretting the attacks on the character of those who I have been white in recent months and with my eyes set on the future,” he published in a statement collected by the newspaper.
