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The entrepreneurs of the Emix company are accused of having sold unusable masks to the federal government at exorbitant prices. Now the two 23-year-olds comment in an interview.
Boxes with sanitary and protective equipment in a DDPS building in Bern.
Photo: Anthony Anex (Keystone)
The two young entrepreneurs from the Zurich company Emix Trading became billionaires last year selling protective masks. They had sold masks to the federal government for around 22 million francs, including counterfeit and unusable products, as reported in this newspaper. Federal Councilor Viola Amherd has a internal investigation of the case instructed.
The two 23-year-olds do not want to let the accusations fall on them, reports “St. Galler Tagblatt». In an interview, the young entrepreneurs reject the accusation. They also reject criticism that they sold the protective masks at exorbitant prices. Anyone who talks about usury has no idea how expensive it was to produce goods in such large quantities and send them to Europe.
Sales in Europe, tax in Switzerland
It would have achieved a maximum margin of 20 to 30 percent in Switzerland. “We can prove that,” said one of the two young millionaires. You yourself would have paid purchase prices of between 2 and 7 euros for the masks. It bothers him that it is said that they have become rich at the expense of taxpayers.
Emix Trading made by far the majority of its sales in surrounding Europe, but taxed the profits in Zug. The two 23-year-olds pay their taxes in Schwyz. “In this way, Switzerland got the masks for free,” says one of the two.
However, as a mistake, the former young SVPs admit to buying luxury cars, with which they had also made headlines in the summer. After getting rich selling the masks, they had bought Ferrari and Bentley cars.
