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Ecolog International

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legal form GmbH
founding 1998
Seat At Steele 14, Düsseldorf
management Nazif Destani (Chairman of the Board)
Thomas Wachowitz (Member of the Board of Directors)

Peter Esser (Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors)
António Gonçalves (Managing Director)
Number of employees 12,000 (2014)
sales 131 million (2005)
Branch Military operations services
Website www.ecolog-international.com

Ecolog International is a military service provider headquartered in Dubai , the German branch is in Düsseldorf. The company was well known for the supply of troops to the ISAF in Afghanistan and the " coalition of the willing " in Iraq .

history

The company's founder, Nazif Destani, grew up in the Rhineland , and his father, Lazim Destani, was responsible for transporting Yugoslav guest workers to and from Germany until the Bosnian War . In 1998, in the Kosovo capital Pristina , Nazif Destani learned of the problems the armed forces had with washing soldiers' clothes and founded Ecolog for this task. "Ecolog is the market leader in toilet and laundry services with sales of 131 million euros in 2005, 55 percent more than in the previous year." With over 13 million US dollars , the Bundeswehr's share of this income was 10 percent. In 2010, the Federal Ministry of Defense has earmarked EUR 50 million for contracts with Ecolog.

Ecolog International has expanded its field of activity and the scope of the services it offers since the company was founded by Destani: In addition to supplying troop operations, for example from KFOR and ISAF, there are now oil, gas and mining businesses as well as service offers in the logistics sector, construction and technical planning. Ecolog advertises with the advertising slogan: "We care for your needs!"

Ecolog International Deutschland GmbH has had its headquarters in Düsseldorf since 2005, where Nazif Destanis GIED GmbH was previously located, which dealt with the "establishment and operation of training centers in former war and crisis areas", particularly in Macedonia .

Corporate structure

Management and employees

The chairman of the board is the Ecolog founder Nazif Destani Peter Esser is the vice chairman of the board. Members of the Board of Directors are Thomas Wachowitz - who have been with the company since 2002 - and Steve L. Arnold. The general, who retired in 1997 and interim manager of the competitor KBR (Kellogg Brown & Root), has headed Ecolog Inc. since 2007. Since 2010, António Gonçalves has also been CEO of Ecolog International. Sevri Destani represents Ecolog-China in Shanghai .

According to the company, around 12,000 employees worldwide worked for Ecolog International in 2014. According to reports from Wirtschaftswoche, Macedonians made up 90% of the workforce in 2006 , mainly from the area around Tetovo , from which the Destani family also came. The German Ecolog International GmbH had only two to three dozen employees at the time.

Branches

In 2006 the Frankfurter Rundschau reported, citing “information from an insider of the company's business , that the various companies belonging to Ecolog are not legally linked to one another. Through this “complicated interweaving”, “larger tax payments in Germany” should be avoided, since the then board member Wachowitz “managed his company in a tax-optimized manner” and “saw the Ecolog company network as an 'amalgamation of several companies working together to form one only to provide on-site service. '"

In 2014 Ecolog International consists of several independent branches worldwide: In addition to the headquarters in Dubai, there are company branches in nine other countries: Ecolog Inc. in the United States , Ecolog International Deutschland GmbH, Ecolog DOOEL in Macedonia , Ecolog Enternasyonel Servis ve Hizmet Çözümleri Ticaret ve Limited Sirketi in Turkey , Ecolog Consulting in China, APK ISS Ecolog Eurasia LLC in Russia, Ecolog International Iraq , Ecolog International Afghanistan , and APK Integrated Service Solution in Mongolia.

Ecolog is a member of various lobby organizations in the arms industry , including the German Defense Technology Group, the Förderkreis Deutsches Heer , the Association of the United States Army , the International Peace Operations Association and the Corporate Council on Africa . Ecolog presents itself at various international armaments and security conferences, among other things as a "gold sponsor", advocates the "outsourcing of logistics services previously provided by military forces to private parties" and represents the concept of public-private partnership in the military sector. Ecolog regards itself as a pioneer "in the development and expansion of the privatization of military support tasks."

While the "group of affiliated and associated companies" was almost unknown to the German public until 2009, Ecolog is a well-known term for Bundeswehr soldiers deployed in Afghanistan or Kosovo, as the company provides services such as garbage disposal, sewage disposal and cleaning of the Dirty laundry done.

Company portfolio

Business areas

Camp Marmal near Mazar-e Sharif in northern Afghanistan, a large Ecolog deployment site, May 2006.

According to the company, the company is in the areas of air service , logistics , catering , fuel , container , construction and civil engineering , telecommunications , cleaning , laundry , mobile toilets , water and energy supply and waste management act, which it collectively referred to as "mobile infrastructure services".

The main activities in Afghanistan are laundry, fuel delivery and garbage disposal of the ISAF troops. At the beginning of 2007, for example, the Ecolog station in Mazar-e Scharif cleaned around 700 bags of dirty laundry every day with 40 washing machines and three large washing machines.

Use in danger areas

Ecolog offers its services mainly in crisis areas around the world.

"We offer our service solutions to multinational armed forces and aid organizations in crisis areas and operational regions around the world."

- Ulrich Horsmann, 2007 Ecolog CEO , with competitor Toifor since 2008.

Kidnapped and killed employees

In 2004, four washerwomen working for an Ecolog subcontractor were shot dead in Iraq. Three Macedonian construction workers were kidnapped and killed there that same year. In 2005, four employees in Iraq were released after Ecolog had paid ransom , and other kidnapped Macedonians are said to have been released after the kidnappers discovered that they were Muslims . In February 2006, kidnappers released two Ecolog employees after allegedly paying a $ 1 million ransom. In Afghanistan, where around 80 percent of Ecolog employees were active at the time, four Macedonian Ecolog employees were kidnapped and killed on March 11, 2006, including an uncle of Nazif Destani. At the same time, four Afghan Ecolog employees were released. Nine Afghan police officers died in a land mine while the bodies were being transported .

"We can be quickly wherever trouble spots arise or expand."

Ecolog does not pay any hazardous bonuses , as any use in its business area is dangerous.

Customers

Ecolog International's customers in Iraq include American, British and Italian armed forces, as well as the important American military service provider KBR , which concluded contracts with a volume of around six billion US dollars with the US federal government in around 2008 , and Ecolog as a subcontractor entrusted with parts of it. In Afghanistan, in addition to these customers, Ecolog also works for the ISAF soldiers of the German armed forces and the project office of the German police (→ German police operations abroad ), as well as for the Society for Technical Cooperation (GTZ), the German Embassy and the German Development Bank . Likewise, in Afghanistan, NATO headquarters and the allied Belgian, Bulgarian, Estonian, Finnish, French, Croatian, Norwegian, Swedish, Spanish and Turkish armed forces are or were among the Ecolog customers, as well as the Canadian and US embassies.

Criticism and controversy

Ordering without a tender

Ecolog mobile toilet in Camp Marmal, Afghanistan, 2006. Danish inscription: "Forsvarsministeren med følge" (German: "Defense minister with entourage").

In December 2009 NDR Info reported that the German Armed Forces awarded Ecolog contracts until 2007 without carrying out the Europe-wide tenders required by public procurement law . The Federal Ministry of Defense justified this direct award with the “local conditions”. A major contract for laundry services in Afghanistan was awarded to Ecolog in 2007 after a tender, partial contracts still without a tender. By means of an injunction, Ecolog had the regional court in Cologne forbid the NDR to state that "Ecolog received orders from the German armed forces until 2007 without any tendering."

Ecolog denied any illegal procurement practice, even before 2007, and denied any responsibility for the involvement of employees in criminal “activities outside of an employment relationship with the Ecolog group of companies”. The Bundeswehr has been reviewing its business with Ecolog since the NDR reports. The Ministry of Defense also confirmed contracts with Ecolog "decentralized within the framework of so-called direct awards", which should, however, be checked. "The aim of the review is, among other things, to ensure that contracts are awarded transparently in the areas of operation through tenders, to carry out increased contract controlling on site and to strengthen competition". In 2005, Ecolog had already called for the introduction of "exceptions for particularly urgent cases" into public procurement law and "lifting the value limit for tenders".

In April 2010, the German government responded to a small request from the Bundestag parliamentary group Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen regarding the awarding of contracts to Ecolog that in Kosovo from 1999 and since 2002 in Afghanistan "the requirement to meet the needs of the Bundeswehr's contingents quickly [...] for awarding decisions" at Ecolog was essential. "Often, but not exclusively, orders were placed with Ecolog by way of private contracts", but for KFOR in Kosovo, "there have been no contractual relationships with Ecolog for several years". In addition to the Ministry of Defense , the Federal Foreign Office and the Federal Ministry of the Interior have given Ecolog direct orders.

The three ministries cited the exceptions to the obligation to public tenders provided for in the contracting regulations for services as justification for the direct awards . For “laundry services from 2008”, Ecolog submitted the most economical offer in the ISAF area after a public tender and therefore received the contract with an estimated volume of 4.4 million euros per year.

The data published by the US policy website FedSpending.org on 30 contracts between the US federal government and Ecolog since 2005 show no public tenders in competition with competitors. In fiscal 2008, thus at least 2.8 million 1.4 million flowed dollars from federal funds directly to Ecolog, including the largest single amount of dollars the United States Department of the Army granted for the supply of the 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion of the United States Marine Corps served in Iraq and as “ Full and open competition, but only one bid ” (German: “Complete and open competition, but only one bid”) were awarded.

Accusation of quality defects

After research by the Frankfurter Rundschau and Wirtschaftswoche , sharp criticism of the quality of Ecolog services was raised in 2010:

There were "serious problems with Ecolog services in 2006 and 2007," the newspapers reported, citing the Ministry of Defense. So did Camouflage get after repeated washing by Ecologistas a "Pink Stitch" and be with night vision devices have been seen to be good because they "of the company. Were cleaned Ecolog with detergents, optical brighteners and oxidants" contained. The Bundeswehr then changed the corresponding Ecolog contracts. Since 2009, the Ministry of Defense has required the company to “use a specific branded detergent”. Diesel deliveries also caused problems, as they flocculated in light frost. In order to prevent this, the Bundeswehr introduced "specific contractual agreements and corresponding sampling on delivery". Ecolog is now using its own mobile test laboratory to ensure that the fuel has the necessary additives. In addition, the wastewater that Ecolog promised to dispose of “in Afghanistan according to European standards” was trickled onto fields in 2006 “a few kilometers from the camp” . The processing plant "did not correspond to the state of the art and gave rise to doubts about an effective wastewater treatment", the Ministry of Defense knew since 2007, when the German armed forces terminated the wastewater disposal contracts, put them out to tender and then re-awarded them to Ecolog.

Ecolog board member Wachowitz spoke of “ performance disruptions” in relation to the quality defects , the occurrence of which was “nothing unusual”.

The German government reported in April 2010 that a review of the deficiencies in Ecolog's services in the washing of camouflage clothing and in the delivery of diesel had "yielded no findings on the security of deployed soldiers". The defects were also remedied after they were discovered. The federal government is also aware of the shortcomings in Ecolog's disposal services in Afghanistan in 2008: “Wastewater and household waste were not disposed of in an environmentally friendly manner, (food) waste was insufficiently incinerated and waste oil was improperly stored. In addition, individual quantities and invoices relating to the disposal services were sometimes not transparent or incorrect, which was largely eliminated by intensified contract management by the Bundeswehr. ”The Berlin Office for Peace and Disarmament assessed the information provided by the Federal Government on its Bundeswehr Monitoring information platform as an extensive confirmation of the Media reports on hands-free awards and security-related breakdowns.

Organized crime allegations

The wider public was Ecolog 2009 and 2010, according to reports by NDR Info announced that the award of Bundeswehr - orders placed on Ecolog in question suspect had expressed, Ecolog is in organized crime involved. First of all, an injunction by the Hamburg Regional Court prohibited the NDR from disseminating the allegations, which the Defense Committee of the German Bundestag also dealt with in 2010 .

Reporting by NDR Info and tagesschau.de linked Ecolog with several crimes in December 2009: In 2009 , the Traunstein Regional Court sentenced a former Ecolog employee to nine and a half years in prison for smuggling over four kilograms of heroin into Germany. Ecolog fired the employee when he was wanted by international arrest warrant. The reports also referred to investigations by the Federal Criminal Police Office "into evidence of the delivery of several hundred kilos of heroin from Afghanistan to Central Europe", which took place in 2006 and 2007 and which were directed against an Ecolog employee, among others. Moreover, the Macedonian've Attorney General since 2006 against the local Ecolog attorney for money laundering determined -Verdachts because, among other things, several million euros are to have been withdrawn in cash from credit cards.

The following NDR inquiries to NATO in February 2010 triggered, according to the commander of the Allied Joint Force Command Brunssum , General Egon Ramms , investigations into whether the NATO agreements with Ecolog “were misused for illegal activities.” The suspicion that “that possibly drugs have been smuggled or things like that ”( Egon Ramms ), based on NATO sources that have so far gone unnoticed. In it "members of a clan standing behind the service provider as involved in organized crime" were described. According to NDR reports, reports by the Kosovo security force KFOR said the Macedonian-Albanian Destani family from Tetovo is a "clan with a focus on organized crime" whose members controlled crimes in the border area between Macedonia and Albania . In this context, the NDR reported that the head of the Destanis family was Lazim Destani, who was sentenced to 27 months in prison in 1994 by the Munich district court "among other things for illegally acquiring a fully automatic firearm and assisting unauthorized entry in 30 cases".

Opposition, litigation and out-of-court settlement

Ecolog board member Thomas Wachowitz, who had denounced the suspicions published in December 2009 as unsubstantial, also denied in February 2010 any “connection between Ecolog or its founding family and criminal behavior”. He suspected confusion of names as the cause of the allegations. In response to a subsequent application from Ecolog, the press chamber of the Hamburg Regional Court decided on March 4, 2010 as part of an interim injunction that the NDR was not allowed to continue reporting on Ecolog. In particular, the NDR must not arouse the suspicion that Ecolog is involved in drug trafficking or that a clan involved in organized crime stands behind the company.

As a result, Wachowitz also rejected all other allegations: "The allegations are all baseless and devoid of substance." The NDR had "spread unfounded allegations on the Internet, on the radio and in a press release and thus caused serious damage to our company's reputation". Ecolog therefore wanted to “assert claims for damages against the NDR”. The NDR initially denied that it had spread unfounded allegations and announced that it would "object to the injunction" as soon as the relevant documents were available.

The Federal Ministry of Defense had stated that during a routine military security check of Ecolog in the context of procurement procedures, “there were no abnormalities.” The Federal Government also stated that it was not aware of any criminal acts by Ecolog.

After Ecolog had hired the former member of the Bundestag Friedrich Merz to prepare a lawsuit for damages before a US court, the NDR agreed to an out-of-court settlement in October 2010, which Der Spiegel judged to be an "unusually far-reaching settlement": The broadcaster promised letters of apology Nazif Destani and Ecolog, which the company published on November 2, 2010 on its website. In it, the NDR committed itself and its employees, in accordance with the preliminary injunction of the Hamburg Regional Court, not to repeat statements "which aroused suspicion of illegal actions by the Ecolog company" or the family of its founder Nazif Destani:

“The information available to Norddeutscher Rundfunk at the time was not confirmed. [...] We regret if your reputation as an entrepreneur and that of your family has suffered as a result of our suspicion reporting and you have inconvenienced as a result. "

The content of the out-of-court settlement was also that the NDR did not publish the letters of apology of its own accord and "in what way the NDR may comment on the case in the event of press inquiries."

Debate about military outsourcing

The obsession with Ecolog broke away from the more general view of “problems that can arise when the military purchases services from private companies.” “ Military outsourcing ”, which is carried out on a larger scale in the United States than in Germany , became the subject of a public discussion. On the one hand, it could reduce the costs in the defense budget : the savings made by the US Army through outsourcing alone amounted to "around twelve billion dollars in pension payments". In the past, Ecolog had also repeatedly emphasized the advantages of “outsourcing utility services that were previously provided by the armed forces themselves to private companies”. In 2006, the then Ecolog board member Horsmann emphasized at a conference in front of "300 executives of the Bundeswehr [...] the advantages of the entrepreneurial risk that a private company could use economically over the state's cameralistics. In particular, when it comes to procurement and personnel issues, the economy has the opportunity to achieve a lot. "

On the other hand, new costs that are difficult to control could arise, among other things because competitive conditions in this sector did not prevail, since "only one or a few companies [...] offer suitable services". In Germany, the Basic Law also prohibits the outsourcing of sovereign tasks and thus restricts its options. The Association of Civil Servants of the Federal Armed Forces (VBB) criticized the growing tendency to "privatize services that are not part of the core business." While the VBB gives preference to administration with the same economic efficiency, Ecolog demanded that state administration only be used if it " is clearly cheaper or actually mandatory ". The defense policy spokesman for Alliance 90 / The Greens Omid Nouripour warned against too much outsourcing in the Bundeswehr. The lack of transparency in the outsourcing of military logistics was also criticized: With the Ecolog debate, "an industry that has previously felt very comfortable in the dark." The Ministry of Defense under Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (CSU) aimed to increase the Contracting volume to private companies, but on the other hand had announced an audit of all such expenses.

Web links

Commons : Ecolog  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ecolog-international.com: "Contact" ( Memento from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h company brochure Ecolog International Service Solutions  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: ecolog-international.com , January 22, 2007, accessed on March 1, 2010 (PDF, 3.21 MB).@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.ecolog-international.com  
  3. ↑ ecolog-international.com: "Leadership" ( Memento from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ ecolog-international.com: Profile / Status 2014 ( Memento from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Harald Schumacher: Ecolog. Cleaning latrines . In: wiwo.de , March 28, 2006, accessed on November 21, 2011.
  6. ↑ a b c d e f g h Christoph Heinzle: Bundeswehr awarded contracts without a tender. Services in Afghanistan worth millions ( Memento from December 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive ). In: tagesschau.de , December 10, 2009, accessed on March 1, 2010.
  7. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l ISAF mission in Afghanistan. NATO checks business with German company ( Memento of February 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). In: tagesschau.de , February 26, 2010, accessed on March 1, 2010.
  8. ↑ ecolog-international: Ecolog Story ( Memento from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ Vision ( Memento of November 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) and Imprint ( Memento of November 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). In: gied.com , November 18, 2007, archived in the Internet Archive , accessed on March 1, 2010.
  10. ↑ Imprint ( Memento from September 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive ). In: ecolog-international.com , 2009, accessed March 1, 2010.
  11. ↑ General (ret.) Steve L. Arnold ( Memento March 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). In: defense-conference.de , 2008, accessed on March 1, 2010.
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  13. ↑ Ecolog AG - Germany / Shanghai Rep. Office Contact Mr. Sevri Destani ( Memento of the original from April 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: companycoltd.com , accessed March 1, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.companycoltd.com
  14. ↑ ecolog-international.com: Profile (as of 2014) ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ecolog-international.com
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  18. ^ Memberships ( Memento from November 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive ). In: ecolog-international.com , 2009, accessed March 1, 2010.
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  31. ^ Contracts to KBR INC. (FY 2008) . Query the FedSpending.org database, accessed March 1, 2010.
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  33. ↑ a b Provisional injunction against NDR ( memento from February 6, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ). In: Meedia.de , March 5, 2010, accessed on March 6, 2010.
  34. ↑ a b Press release from Ecolog AG . In: firmenpresse.de , December 11, 2009, accessed on March 1, 2010.
  35. ↑ a b c d e f g The award of the contract by the federal government to the company Ecolog. Answer of the Federal Government to the minor question from MPs Tom Koenigs, Omid Nouripour, Marieluise Beck (Bremen), other MPs and the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen parliamentary group . Printed matter 17/1390 of the German Bundestag, April 16, 2010, accessed on May 10, 2010 (PDF, 110 KB).
  36. ↑ Terms and Conditions for Services, Part A, Section 1, Section 3, Number 4.
  37. ^ Contracts to ECOLOG AG. (FY 2000-2009) . Query the FedSpending.org database, accessed March 1, 2010.
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  41. ↑ Bundeswehr sticks to controversial military service provider Ecolog ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). In: Bundeswehr Monitoring , April 23, 2010, accessed on May 10, 2010.
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  43. ↑ At that time Ecolog International owned the domain www.lazim-destani.net: Domain Information for lazim-destani.net . In: DomainCrawler , accessed March 1, 2010.
  44. ↑ “ The order means that NDR is no longer allowed to 'raise the suspicion that the [Ecolog company] is involved in drug dealing' or that it 'is backed by members of a clan involved in organized crime.' ”
  45. ↑ NDR press releases on Ecolog: NDR Info: Bundeswehr contracts worth millions for Afghanistan mission not advertised ; NATO is checking business relationships with a German service provider for the Afghanistan mission  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: firmenpresse.de , February 26, 2010, accessed on March 7, 2010.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.firmenpresse.de  
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