Helmet Kohl's son....suing the Ministry of Health in Germany....over masks?
Well....this is the simple story.
Last year, when the Germans woke up and mandated masks to be worn....the supply was utterly zero. Those who saw this coming in Feb/March 2020....had gone and bought medical masks at somewhat reasonable prices. After that period where the masks were mandated....the supply simply didn't exist.
You could sit there and laugh over the political screw-up and how people were paying two, three, and sometimes four times the value of masks....to meet the mandate.
So the Ministry of Health authorized a number of open-ended contracts....to deliver millions of masks.
Helmet Kohl's son...Walter....saw an opportunity and contacted non-German sources, and quickly had a deal going. His end of the deal....if he delivered? Roughly five million Euro.
He delivered.
Then he waited.
Like most of these folks....he didn't expect to be paid for a minimum of six months.
Well.....there's no real activity going on by the Health Ministry to pay him. So he took it to court....wanting 5.5-million Euro for 'harm' and his deal.
My gut feeling? The Ministry of Health probably didn't have competent people to write the contracts, and they didn't understand the business side of this....if you deliver....payment generally has to be made within x-number of days. I think they screwed up.
What the court may do? I think they will stall the situation until after the September national election, and then hand the settlement to the government to pay (just guessing, within 90 days). The 'harm' part of this settlement won't exist, but whatever the contract says....they will have to pay.
Stupid? Oh....to the ninth-degree.
But that's the whole problem with the Berlin crowd handling business contracts and not having people around to understand them or the problems that occur if you screw up.
One footnote here.....Walter Kohl is not the only one in this situation....there are probably hundreds waiting on payment.
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