The Auditor General has criticised the Deputy Minister of Research, Innovation and Digital Policy over a “peculiar relationship” with the company awarded a €3.85 million contract to produce 100,000 electronic identity cards without an open tender process. Auditor General Andreas Papaconstantinou highlighted in a special report that the deputy minister previously served as executive director … Continue reading Deputy Ministry issued thousands of e-IDs with deputy minister’s former boss’s company, audit finds