Former NVG Chief Called to Testify as Investigators Zero In on Teneo Report
Published on 09/10/2026 at 08:31 | Editorial boerse-global.de
Lawmakers probing the Neunkircher Verkehrsgesellschaft (NVG) have set two decisive markers for the months ahead, agreeing to pull an external audit into the record and to summon the transport operator's former managing director to answer questions in person.
The cross-party backing for both moves emerged from committee sessions on 8 September 2026 and 9 September 2026, when members signed off on the two evidence resolutions that will shape the rest of the inquiry.
Audit report takes centre stage
At the heart of the current evidence-gathering is the so-called Teneo investigation report. The committee treats the document as a key building block for reconstructing how the company was run internally and how its business decisions were reached.
Alongside the paper trail, investigators want to hear directly from the people who were in the room. That is why Pascal Koch, who led the NVG as managing director, has been called as a witness. His testimony is intended to shed light on operational leadership and the chain of command during his tenure.
SPD backs CDU motions
The latest steps rest on cooperation between the parties represented on the committee. The SPD parliamentary group in the state legislature threw its weight behind the corresponding motions from the CDU.
David Maaß, the SPD's committee spokesman, confirmed his group's approval of the evidence requests on 8 September 2026 and again the following day. The joint position on admitting the Teneo report and hearing Koch signals a shared interest in leaving no gaps in the account of what happened at the company.
Cooperation inside the committee, however, covers only one strand of the wider political argument over the NVG.
Push to sharpen the mandate
Even as members found common ground on evidence, the SPD continued to press for a tighter definition of the inquiry's overall remit. In statements issued on 8 September 2026 and 9 September 2026, the group urged the full state parliament to refine the scope of the investigation.
The demand traces back to constitutional questions raised during an expert hearing. Legal specialists told the committee that the reach and the limits of a parliamentary inquiry must be spelled out clearly if it is to satisfy statutory requirements.
From the SPD's standpoint, only the plenary can deliver that precision, putting the proceedings on firm legal ground and clearing up any lingering constitutional doubts. How the committee proceeds from here will therefore hinge on how those procedural guardrails are settled in the parliamentary sittings still to come.
