COO Contract ends May 30th 2015 and will not be renewed, Employee used to remove several files from GEBE as COO clears his desk.
PHILIPSBURG:--- The supervisory board of GEBE dismissed the Chief Operations Officer (COO)Romelio Maduro of the company on Tuesday. According to information coming from a board member they had to take the decision when they found gross irregularities and mismanagement of the company. Maduro became COO about three years ago. No details of the irregularies or mismanagement have been disclosed.
Ever since Maduro took office the company have been making the news almost every week in a negative light.
Another person the supervisory board is looking at is the Chief Financial Officer Rene Gartner whom they were investigating for the abuse of the company's credit card.
SMN News wrote that story some weeks ago when the board found out that Gartner bought airline tickets to the Netherlands with GEBE credit cards for his personal use.
SMN News learnt that Maduro was called in on Monday where he attended a short meeting with the Human Resources Manager and then left, The source said that Maduro was informed of the Board's decision on Tuesday and since then he did not return to work up until Monday morning when he attended a short meeting then left the premises. In the meantime the Chairman of the Supervisory board Rene Richardson allegedly denied to other media outlets that Maduro was not sent home or even suspended, yet Richardson told several of his close friends about the dismissal.SMN News further learnt from another board member that certain politicians intervened and requested that the board demote the COO Romelio Maduro and not fire him.
Rene Richardson also denied in the past that he took the SER to court when he was told that he had to resign because of his age. It is not clear if Richardson addressed the ongoing credit card investigation where both Maduro and Gartner credit cards were taken for the investigation.
Investigation on Credit Cards Mis-spending Submited --- No Sanctions taken against Gartner.
According to a board member of the Supervisory board of GEBE the report on the misuse of GEBE credit cards was submitted on Wednesday May 13th 2015.
Based on the findings and contents of the report it is indeed proven that Rene Gartner misused GEBE credit cards when he purchased several airline tickets for his personal use. Gartner even went as far as purchasing a private satellite and has it in it in his office for his personal use. However, the leader of the UPP Theodore Heyliger chose to protect Gartner since he is the one that recruited him for the post he is holding at GEBE.
In the case or Romelio Maduro the report states that Maduro has been using GEBE credit cards on an open tap at the cigar lounge and at brothels on the island.
So far employees of GEBE cannot understand why no sanctions have been taken against Gartner who purchased a vehicle for $45,000.00 while he is only authorized to use $30,000.00 for the purchase of a vehicle. Most of the findings in the report shows that the two senior personnel of GEBE have been using GEBE credit cards for matters that are not related to their jobs.
Romelio Maduro reported to work at GEBE on Tuesday after meeting with the human resources manager on Monday who informed him that the company will not renew his contract that will end on May 30th 2015. However, SMN News have been reliably informed that the COO is using an employee of GEBE to remove several files from GEBE main office. The employee it is understood took out several folders all day on Tuesday even though he knows that the COO just have a few more days to work. According to information SMN News recieved is that the human resources manager have been covering up for the COO and the employee that is being used to conduct the illegal removal of documents from the company is afraid of losing his job because all of what is done now was allegedly orchestrated between the COO and the human resources manager.
