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Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) - In the affair of the multi-million dollar financing of the planned Expo pavilion, the former head of the project, Daniel Sander, will be heard as a witness before the investigative committee of the state parliament in Stuttgart today (11 a.m.).
At that time Sander was managing director of the Baden-Württemberg Chamber of Engineers.
This, the Freiburg exhibition company and the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering and Organization in Stuttgart belonged to the project company that had spoken of a project “from business for business”.
But she hadn't been able to find enough sponsors.
Sander had signed the contracts with the expo organizers in Dubai.
He was later relieved.
The estimated total costs for the construction and operation of the pavilion as well as for participation in the Expo are currently expected to be 15 million euros.
Most of this will be borne by the country because it stepped into the breach to save the project.
Originally, it was assumed that the cost would be 2.8 million euros.
Economics Minister Nicole Hoffmeister-Kraut (CDU) had admitted mistakes in her department when she was interrogated, but had no personal responsibility.
Baden-Württemberg is the only federal state with its own pavilion in Dubai.
The world exhibition is to take place from October 1, 2021 to the end of March 2022.
It should actually take place this year.
It was postponed as a result of the corona crisis.