The airbag of the driver of the police officer who left the garage of the Pilakuta Group was unnecessarily opened without paying. In the Research Committee the case
AWe had revelations from the very first meeting of the Research Committee on the deadly airbags, as it was revealed that vehicles were recalled in Cyprus due to defective airbags since 2008! The incident is revealed in a court ruling of the Nicosia District Court, Date. 25/1/2016, which was reported yesterday Chairman of the Research Committee, Michalakis Christodoulou.
The court order It concerns a lawsuit filed by the Pilakutas Group, to which the BMW delegation belongs, against a police officer for height debt €1.107. According to the court ruling, after a trick, the police officer fooled the employee and drove his vehicle outside the garage without paying the amount due to beyond the replacement of the problem airbag. and additional work on the vehicle And specifically, a handbrake change.
As recorded in the court ruling posted in the electronic database – CYLAW of the Pancyprian Bar Association, in September 2010, the airbag of the Police Driver, BMW, Model X5, was opened by a manufactured manner of the BMW BMW Model, who was introduced from his overseas. BMW on 20/9/2010 for repair.
The technical director and director of the workshop, Andreas Andreou, was the only witness in the case. As Mr Andreou testified before the court, in 2008 the BMW plant called on the owners of BMW X5 vehicles from 1/3/2001 to 28/2/2002 for controlling the multiple airbags due to problems presented. The former owner of the police officer did not show the vehicle for this search, so the Pilakutas Group refused to cover the costs of replacing the airbag in that vehicle, which the police officer knew very well, but, with the exception of the BMW. The total cost of accessories and labor for repairing the police vehicle was € 3,356. The BMW plant asked the delegation in Cyprus to discount the police officer and send the invoice to Germany.
As the technical director of the Pilakuta Group testified before the Nicosia District Court, when the police officer was ready, he was informed, both of the fact that his repair eventually cost € 1,107, which he never questioned, and he said. He actually went to the garage and the witness himself gave him the key to drive it and go to the accounting office to pay. However, the police officer, according to the witness, “entered the vehicle and all of a sudden and without notice and misleading the technical director, drove it out of the garage without paying the amount,” claiming that he did not ask for the handbrake to change.
The court ruled the police officer’s testimony fully unreliable and that there was inaccuracies and events that do not respond to reality. At the same time pointing out the following in his decision: “The attempt by the defendant (Police Officer) to link the issue of changing components related to the handbrake with the problem that occurred to the airbags was completely unsuccessful, since no positive or technical testimony on this subject was not provided by him …
Based on the above, the Court issued a ruling in favor of the Pilakouta Group and against the police officer for the amount of € 1,107 now 9% to repayment. The police officer was also called to pay the laws.
Research questions in DG of the Pelica Group
The General Manager of the Pilakouta Group, Loukas Hadjivasiliou, would deposit yesterday before the Research Committee. He was asked about the above court ruling, which revealed that the problem with defective airbags was known since 2008. Mr Hatzivasiliou expressed ignorance of the existence of the court ruling, resulting in postponing yesterday. Coming Wednesday, as the first witness, to answer the following three questions arising from the court ruling in question:
Was the airbags in the policeman’s vehicle, as the information said?
When did the Pilakutas Group be recalled for airbags of X5 models and what measures have taken to address the relevant reviews?
When did the Pilakutas Group stop to sell Takata airbag vehicles for sale?
The testimonies exposing Tom
1 The cashier of the Association of Importers of New Vehicles (SEMIO) and Director of Dickran Ouzounian (importer of Toyota and Lexus cars in Cyprus), Dikran Ouzounian, in his testimony before the Research Committee said that his company has made more than 100 campaigns from 2004. In 2007, the Supervisory Authority for the revolt of vehicles was the Consumer Protection Service of the Ministry of Commerce and since 2007, vol.
As Mr Ouzounian testified, “in August 2018 we informed Tom of the first airbag recall process”, noting that “a total of 550 vehicles had been repaired by 768”. Revealing that he asked Tom to stop issuing motors to the owners of vehicles who did not respond to his company’s notifications to replace Takata airbags but there was no reaction from Tom. This is the measure implemented just a few months ago by law voted by the House.
2 Galatariotis Motors spokesman Stella Nikolaidou testified before the Research Committee that in December 2013 there was the first briefing on defective airbags, and noted that 2014 was the first official announcement. According to Mrs Nikolaidou, the company tried to send registered letters for information, but citizens did not receive them “fearing they were taxes”. Mrs Nikolaidou also testified that in 2017 she participated in a meeting in Tom to search for ways to persuade or even oblige drivers with Takata vehicles to replace defective airbags. He also said that on 26/11/2020 a letter was sent to Tom by Galatariotis Motors with the recommendation not to issue motors and traffic licenses for the pending recall. However, they received no answer from Tom.
3 In her own testimony, Unicars Vice President and Director Christiana Diogenes said her company was able to know the problem since 2018, however, she clarified that the recall information in the vehicles she represented was officially 56. Answering a question, Mrs Diogenes said that TAKATA airbags are immediately informed by her company.
4 The president of the Semi, Sotos Trikomitis (AI TRIKOMITIS LTD) complained that the situation in Cyprus created with defective airbags is unique in Europe, as the state and thus Tom allows for the import and sale of Cyprus to the Cyprus vehicles, such as third -country vehicles, such as EU. Unless the import of these vehicles, which have caused the big problem with Takata airbags, “citizens’ safety will continue to be in danger,” he said.