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PAID PARKING LOTS INTRODUCTION IS UNPOPULAR, BUT PROFITABLE FOR CHISINAU – PARKLEITSYSTEM COMPANY

11 april, 2017
PAID PARKING LOTS INTRODUCTION IS UNPOPULAR, BUT PROFITABLE FOR CHISINAU – PARKLEITSYSTEM COMPANY The introduction in Chisinau of paid parking lots is an unpopular measure, but it implies the creation of 400 new jobs and will annually bring 9.2 million euros in the capital city budget, maintains members of the consultation board of the Austrian-Hungarian company EME Parkleitsystem Gmbh Zsigmond Bodnar.

 

He said at the Monday’s news conference at Infotag that he specially came to Chisinau to confirm partnership with municipal authorities and answer to opponents’ questions.

 

“Statements about the fact that the EME Parkleitsystem is a phantom company do not correspond to the reality. The enterprise was created for implementing the Chisinau project on car parking, it is a daughter of the EME Holding Austria, which is implementing such project all across the world – in Egypt, Malta, Laos. While the fact that someone did not find company representative office on its legal address in Viena, I can say that our legal consultants are working there and are also cooperating with other companies. Absence of a signboard with the company’s name is contrary to the Moldovan and Hungarian legislature, but not the Austrian one”, the company representative said.

 

According to him, by means of the Desonia Invest Company and the WCA Holding Invest (Malta), investments have already started arriving to Chisinau.

 

“As for the concern about the fact that these companies are registered in offshore accounts, I can say that Cyprus and Malta are EU countries and the transparency of all the financial transactions may be traced via these countries’ state institutions”, Zsigmond Bodnar said.

 

He maintains that it is not about any fast and extraordinary profit. At paying of 10% from the parking turnover to the municipal budget, financial costs will be covered in 5 years, while the city budget will start being replenished already next year after the start of work.

 

“With the creation of 20 thousand parking places within a year, multiple conflicts will start for the free parking lots. Thus, Chisinau citizens will demand us to build more. We are planning to build 40 thousand parking places over a year”, Bodnar said.

 

Party of Socialists’ councilor Alexander Odintsov asked the compay representative if he does not feel himself as member of a corruption scheme, knowingly causing damage to municipal budget. The investor representative recognized that some agreement conditions are contrary to the Moldovan legislation, but this was unknown before the signing.

 

He said that on April 21, the Chisinau Municipal Council will hold hearings on the topic of paid parking lots, while on April 19, the EME Parkleitsystem invited press representatives, civil activists and simple Chisinau citizens to hearings, where advantages of parking lots will be presented and the opinion of simple citizens will be heard.

 

Infotag’s dossier: Primaria signed a contract of partnership with EME Parkleitsystem GmbH on December 3, 2015. The contract implies building of paid car parking lots and their administration during 25 years.

 

The contract caused serious conflicts in Primaria [city government], PSRM have many times pointed at vagueness of contract signing, lack of a real contest and the possible serious damage to the capital budget.

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