The supervisory board of Port of Tallinn on Thursday granted the resignation requests of the company's board members Ain Kaljurand and Allan Kiil, who have been arrested as part of a bribery investigation, and appointed CFO Marko Raid and lawyer Carri Ginter as new members of the management board.
Marko Raid, Carri Ginter appointed directors of Port of Tallinn
27th August 2015, 17:33
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The supervisory board decided to appoint former Port of Tallinn CFO Marko Raid and sworn advocate Carri Ginter as board members on an ad-interim basis, until a competition to fill the positions has been held, the chairman of the supervisory board of the state-owned port company, Remo Holsmer, said at a press conference.
Ginter will be tasked with ensuring legal clarity at the company, conducting a review of tenders and internal documents, Holsmer said. "To review everything with the eye of an outsider," the Reform Party MP added.
In the future more profound background checks are to be performed on the people to be appointed as managers. A public competition to fill the positions of board members will be announced soon.
«There will be changes in the lineup of the supervisory board soon. They were about to be happen already,» Holsmer said, adding that when exactly this will happen is to be decided by the ministries of finance and economic affairs and communications.
«It is my duty to ensure the company's ability to continue functioning normally,» Holsmer said in his answer to a question on whether he intends to resign.
Officers of the Internal Security Service (ISS) on Wednesday morning detained the chairman of the management board of Port of Tallinn, Ain Kaljurand, and member of the board Allan Kiil as suspects in bribe-taking.
Both men are suspected of accepting bribes on a large scale over a period of several years. «Before the initial procedural acts have been carried out the content of the suspicion and the amount of money received as bribe cannot be disclosed,» spokespeople for the chief prosecutor's office told BNS. ISS officials conducted searches on the premises of the state-owned port company and at the dwellings of the suspects. Searches were conducted also at several other locations.
Three more people have been detained as suspects in bribe-giving and three others as suspected accessories to bribe-giving, spokespeople for the chief prosecutor's office said.