We remember: the salary of Viola Amherd’s personal collaborator, for an external mandate of three months, caused a lot of ink to flow a few days ago. Indeed, Brigitte Hauser-Süess, retired since September, receives more until the end of December than an American president (on an annual scale), revealed the NZZ. But she would not be the only one within the Department of Defense, we learned on Tuesday.
Indeed, according to Blick, two other retired executives, close to the minister, also obtained very lucrative mandates. Starting with the former head of the Air Force, Aldo C. Schellenberg, who also received a generous fee to produce a report on Switzerland’s security. He would have received, for this mandate between mid-April and the end of August 2023, the tidy sum of 156,000 francs. The former vice-director of the Federal Office of Sport, Jörg Annaheim, would have received 180,000 francs for a mandate in the years 2022 and 2023. He was hired by the OFSPO due to a “lack of personnel, following a large number of projects and sports policy to be carried out at the same time.
When questioned, Viola Amherd’s Department of Defense sees nothing wrong with it. According to him, these contracts are possible, but only “in exceptional and justified cases”, he tells Blick.
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