[members-discuss] AFRINIC expenses

[AFRINIC Communication]

Dear Mr. Wollner,

We refer to your email dated 14 September 2022. Kindly find our reply as follows:

(i) In regard to your claim concerning payments purportedly made by AFRINIC for "multiple members' flight tickets in the past few weeks, as well as huge sponsorship expenses that far exceed normal operating budget", do substantiate your claim with clear and precise particulars before we may, subject to part (iii) below, be in a position to consider a response; failing which we shall assume that you are embarking upon a fishing expedition for confidential information.

(ii) We reject your gratuitous, unfounded, and unwarranted statement regarding AFRINIC’s legal representations in Court. We understand similar statements have been made in Court against AFRINIC and therefore, we shall refrain from commenting further on this, having regard to the sub-judice rule.

(iii) As regards the financial information sought from the Finance Department, we refer to our reply dated 29 July 2022, addressed to you, concerning our approved process of financial scrutiny and our predicament in connection thereof.

Further, since you are the sole director of Africa on Cloud (Pty) ltd and who is the source of an  application for an injunction in the case Africa on Cloud (Pty) Ltd vs Afrinic case bearing reference SC/COM/WRT/000418/2022 which has resulted in AFRINIC not having a quorate board to deliver on its role and functions as Regional Internet Registry for the African service region, we, therefore, condemn your attitude and bad faith in sending emails containing allegations as well as insinuations to both AFRINIC's Members-Discuss and Community-Discuss mailing lists in order to incite and/or provoke reactions from others, and that despite you having full knowledge of AFRINIC's current situation.

We remind you that since you opted to pull AFRINIC to Court, we urge you to respect the court process and thus avoid provoking discussions on matters which are live before the Court.

The AFRINIC Team

www.afrinic.net

> On 14 Sep 2022, at 19:16, Paul Wollner <paul.wollner at africaoncloud.net> wrote:
> 
> Dear AFRINIC,
> 
> As member, I am very concerned that AFRINIC have been paying multiple members’ flight tickets to Manutius in past few weeks, as well as some huge sponsorship expenses that far exceeds normal operation budget.
> 
> It seems that AFRINIC lawyers are still acting in court while there is no quorum board to give instructions, hence acting illegally.
> 
> Since AFRINIC does not have a board since 15th of June, can the current financial department confirm the following:
> 
>    1. The AFRINIC expense account since 15th June 2022 till today.
>    2. Who authorises those payment to A. Members’ flight tickets B. Legal fees C. Multiple activities including sponsorship that are clearly outside of normal operation activity.
> 
> Me as a member, as well as my fellow members, have the right to know.
> 
> Please respond within 24 hours.
> 
> Paul
> 
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