In addition to Christine Ourmières-Widener, Stéphanie Sá Silva, Fernando Medina’s wife, and Alexandra Reis, who left the company with 500,000 euros in compensation, also used the cars and their drivers for personal purposes, reports Dinheiro Vivo.
The practice that was disclosed by a driver and confirmed by the former executive president of the airline, in the parliamentary commission of inquiry into the management of TAP, was usual within the directors of TAP.
A source quoted by Dinheiro Vivo reveals that the car belonging to the wife of Fernando Medina, who left the position of legal director at TAP when the former mayor of Lisbon took over as Finance Minister, was even personalized with bicycle carrier on the roof. More than that, the now ruler too drove the van Peugeot 308 to which the TAP worker was entitled.
As for Alexandra Reis, who criticized the conduct allegedly carried out solely by Christine Ourmières-Widener, she also used the services of TAP drivers to take her children to the sports academy where they played soccer and for various family emergencies.
O Dinheiro Vivo also reveals that Gonçalo Pires, financial administrator, also enters the lot of those who requested personal displacements, notably so that the children can be taken to school, and that another director went to ask for a bigger car due to lack of space for the family.
The case of the TAP driver revealed the “little servant leadership” of Christine Ourmières-Widener
Source: Observadora
