Don't Let Germany Become (or Remain) a Safe Haven for White-Collar Crime
The international reputation of the European Union (EU) is at stake too
Months ago: Germany's Corruption Problem Curtails Adoption of GNU/Linux and Free Software
His first week on the job, in an institution he hadn't worked in before, lobbying for UPC while the German Constitutional Court was assessing it: (it would later find, in March 2020, that the process had in fact violated the German Constitution, never mind many other constitutions)
António Campinos, who does not give a "f***" about the law. Nor does his son, who wanted to borrow immunity from the EU after driving without a licence, drunk, and crashing the car.
THE understaffed EPO (the word "understaffed" is used by insiders, more so after the General Assembly) isn't just a hazard to its workers. Yielding endless monopolies as if the sole goal is to help corporations consolidate markets, the EPO has become a considerable threat to all Europeans.
Will the EU do something to correct it? No, because it was all along very much complicit. It is a corporate-political power grab at the expense of pertinent citizens whose constitution was meant to guard them, shielding them from what Europe is fast becoming - a kind of "Putin Lite".
Will the EU start with its EUIPO, which falls under its lap? Well, if enough negative publicity piles up, maybe they will save face with some token gentures, even actions. Now that some media talks about corruption at the EUIPO (cross pollination with EPO) SUEPO takes note of this new report:
Exclusive: Fraud office handling complaints over jobs at European trade mark agency
Two complaints made over past year cover several appointments, alleging irregularities in pre-selection, bias, nepotism and graft.
European anti-fraud office OLAF has received two complaints alleging fraud surrounding recruitment at the EU’s Alicante-based intellectual property office (EUIPO), Euronews can reveal, according to two sources familiar with the complaints and sight of related documents.
The two complaints were made within the last year and relate to several recruitment and selection processes. They allege frequent irregularities in the work of pre-selection committees, with a view to present sole candidates for selection, or to favour specific candidates.
In two of the recruitment processes subject to the complaints, graft involving municipal authorities local to EUIPO’s Alicante premises is alleged. Two allegations of nepotism in relation to recruitment are made.
And now they respond, almost a year later. That's probably because the media started talking about it. We collectively contributed to this investigation and the above article has mentioned Mr. Breton, a facilitator of the corruption at the EPO, speaking about "transparency" after he aided EPO secrecy and helped lobby for an illegal, unconstitutional EU "court" for patents (UPC). He's part of this problem, not the solution by any stretch of imagination.
Euronews is a voice for the rich, unlike Mediapart, which did a good job exposing some EPO corruption too.
Where's the German media? Shouldn't it be talking about corruption on its soil? Well, in Germany there are anti-speech thugs, leaning on dubious laws (FSFE did the same to me! For calling them out on their abuses!). Just before the weekend Daniel Pocock wrote about what the "censorship nazis" at the FSFE did to him - a subject he also wrote about over a month ago. Here's the latest:
They are dreaming up imaginary laws under the guise of amateur-hour "Code of Conduct" nonsense. After seeing the way the first two emergency responders, undercover cops, risked their lives, without any protective gear, without any knowledge of the site, I couldn't help thinking of that slimy little German Matthias Kirschner at the FSFE in Berlin snaking his way into the police station begging them to obfuscate the fact that people voted for me. Then we have the case of Axel Beckert from ETH Zurich who engaged in extraordinary acts of perjury to try and plagiarise my work in Debian. With so many real problems in the world today, why should the emergency responders have to waste their time on the vendettas from borderline nazis like that?
As it turns out, Pocock, who is based in Switzerland, had to remain quiet about some of these things. The German FSFE is trying to gag critics and it uses Nazi techniques to silence people, as Pocock explained yesterday. In Switzerland, or more specifically in Geneva, we can't quite find out what happened after ILOAT Judgment No. 4394 [1, 2, 3].
The EPO in Munich and Berlin, plus the ILOAT and ILO in Geneva, leave us wondering what happened to vulnerable people from the EPO. As one reader put it:
Hi Roy,A conclusion to the conclusion of the ILOAT mini-series but it is actually an open end...
In fact the 5 cases were remitted to the EPO for a decision on the merits. So what happened?
Nobody knows... Did the administration give them a positive answer to avoid a further dispute? Were the cases in the hands of the Appeals Committee (ApC) for a second round? Did the ApC issue a recommendation? A positive one? A negative one? Did the administration follow the recommendation of the ApC, if any? Did the requested get moral damages covering the unlawful decision? Are the cases again in Geneva?
So many questions and not even one answer. This is the culture of the EPO derived from North Korean justice in the middle of Europe. No wonder the EPO is understaffed. Zero transparency, abuses, lies and arrogance. Who wants to work with criminals? Not high-level scientists and engineers disconsidered by self-promoted "managers" who generally don't even speak their mother tongue's properly.
The EPO should be made accountable for these abuses.
So what we now get from Germany and Switzerland is "North Korean justice in the middle of Europe". Remember what we published this morning about "JuristGate" in Switzerland.
There seems to be less and less justice in Europe these days. And Russia is having a field day. █