Witmarsum - The Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers (COA) is paying blue on the rental of holiday parks and empty offices for the reception of refugees. A select number of entrepreneurs earns considerably, while others are held by the public outside the door.
According to research from The Associated Press to the owners of accommodations where refugees are housed. According to Professor of European procurement law Elisabetta Manunza be violated procurement rules in the lease.
Northern Netherlands does COA almost exclusively with one developer. This Tom Genee from the Frisian Roodkerk can count this year on a small four million of rent, according to calculations by this newspaper.
Genee houses in Groningen and Leeuwarden nearly a thousand refugees and Assen is a reception center for 500 people equipped.
He buys the premises continues to be to just before known that refugees come in. In previous interviews, he said you're lucky to have 'appropriate locations must have for the COA.
But recreation entrepreneur Gerke Boersma suspect that there is more behind it. Although the COA offers countless receives from property owners, service in the three northern provinces almost exclusively in sea Genee. Now also in the Frisian village of Witmarsum. Genee wants to accommodate 200 refugees in a former convent.
The municipality of Southwest Friesland, which include Witmarsum, first tried to bring the asylum seekers' center bottom of the recreation park under construction by Boersma. He conducted negotiations with the COA. But those talks broke suddenly. "Legally it was not possible," said spokesman Jan-Willem Anholts COA about "because because there was going to be built for the asylum seekers' center, we would be developer."
In a communication from the European Commission on legal aspects of the asylum crisis is that the government may not award a contract to a favored business, unless it is the only one rush job can perform well.
There is no question of Witmarsum: Boersma has both the licenses and financing all around. He has taken a lawyer. ,, Genee the monastery should include also grow more significantly. Why do these rules apply to him, right? "
According to Professor Mananza have Boersma right. ,, Once there to convert, you'll soon be in a tendering obligation. "
Since last year Drenthe former Labour deputy Anneke Haarsma responsible for real estate developments of the COA in the northern Netherlands. That her party in the cities where he works is in the college is "irrelevant," said the spokesman of the COA. Medical preparation does not respond.
http://www.telegraaf.nl/ By: Jan-Willem Navis Photo: Alex J. de Haan
Reactie plaatsen
Reacties