2023-06-09 15:13:08
Trade association drops director-elect
Henrique Schneider should have taken office on July 1st. But he is not allowed to do that now because allegations of plagiarism have been substantiated. Now the trade association is without a new director.
The trade association revokes its election: The elected director Henrique Schneider.
Photo: SGV
Three weeks before the planned change of boss, there was a big bang at the Swiss trade association: Henrique Schneider, who on July 1st died Successor to the previous director Hans-Ulrich Bigler should have competed must not do so. this has today Friday the board of directors decided. The reason for this is the plagiarism scandal.
She started with an article in the “NZZ am Sonntag” in March of this year. In this, the Austrian plagiarism researcher Stefan Weber raised the “reasonable suspicion of serious scientific misconduct” against Henrique Schneider, the current deputy director of the Swiss Trade Association (SGV).
This was explosive insofar as the Chamber of Commerce had already unanimously elected Schneider as the future director in February. The SGV board has therefore commissioned the law firm Bratschi to investigate the allegations in an independent legal opinion. The result is now available and confirms “serial plagiarism”, as the association says today announced.
do not jeopardize credibility
As a result, Schneider is no longer acceptable as a future director for the board of directors of the trade association. «For the SGV, credibility is the greatest asset. Therefore, after detailed discussion, the board decided to take this step,” said association president Fabio Regazzi. The Ticino also sits on the National Council for Die Mitte.
The Bratschi law firm classified the serial plagiarism as clear misconduct and a breach of the duty of loyalty, although not considered serious because the trade association is not a scientific operation. The SGV board regrets the revocation of the election, but considers it necessary in order not to endanger the credibility of the association.
The board now wants to discuss how to proceed and start looking for a new director. He doesn’t have much time left, as Hans-Ulrich Bigler is retiring at the end of this month. Whether he would be willing to extend his term of office was today Unable to find out in the evening. Neither Bigler nor Regazzi nor Schneider could be reached by telephone.
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