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This article is from december 2002. I have asked at the site, what has
happend since. I will let you know.
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![]() OLAF POISED TO
INVESTIGATE MASONIC NETWORK WITHIN EU INSTITUTIONS
As far as conspiracy theories go in Brussels, they
don't get much more sensational, than those of whistle-blower, Robert
'Dougal' Watt - an auditor at the European Court of Auditors. Watt
believes he has evidence of a chilling underground network of Masons
with links to the Italian Mafia operating in the EU Court of Auditors,
the European Parliament, the European Investment Bank - and even the
EU's own fraud investigation unit, OLAF. Substantiated facts - or the
stuff of James Bond novels? The Sprout weighs up the allegations that
OLAF is currently examining, which, if true, could re-open an
investigation into why an EU official committed suicide in 1993 -
implicating one current senior Director- General and an EU Court chief,
both of whom Watt claims are powerful Masons with Mafia connections.
Held in the same light as other
whistle-blowers' accusations, Robert 'Dougal' Watt's are an incendiary
device waiting to be activated. The former auditor of the European Court
of Auditors fled Luxembourg in April, following an inflammatory letter
sent to over 500 MEPs in Brussels. The original letter claimed that the
EU's financial watchdog was awash with corrupt officials whose nepotism,
recruitment irregularities and even sexual harassment had led to Watt
fearing for his life and fleeing Luxembourg.
MEPs may have been drawn to a minor accusation within
the case which accused the EU Court of Auditors of knowing well in
advance of the European Parliament of Paul Van Buitenen's corruption
allegations which brought down the European Commission team run by
Jacques Santer in March 1999 - but chose neither to investigate them nor
to forward them to OLAF, the EU's own team of fraud investigators.
Allegations gaining credibility
Yet what MEPs
didn't know last Spring was that, concurrent to the Watt letter sent to
them, the Scottish auditor had also drafted a 40-page letter to the head
of the EU Court detailing an explanation of why a string of
investigations supposedly led by the EU Court had been closed - and why
he really feared for his life: Watt believes he has evidence of a
chilling underground network of Masons (working externally with Italian
Mafia groups) operating in the EU Court of Auditors, the European
Parliament, the European Investment Bank - and even the EU's own
Anti-Fraud Office, OLAF.
And even though Watt admits in the dossier sent to
Michel Hervi, the Secretary-General of the EU Court of Auditors, that
the lion's share of his allegations are "hypothesis", his principle
charge against OLAF for "failing to pursue leads" can no longer be
ignored as the ramblings of a man suffering from "paranoia" or
"disillusion". Watt's fear of being murdered, once examined in the full
knowledge of the history of his work and how he has been subsequently
handled by top officials that were once his confidants, has since gained
credibility, as indeed have some of his allegations. The Greek 'Member'
of the EU Court of Auditors, Kalliopi Nikolaou, was accused outright by
Watt in April for taking cash payments from individuals - in return for
her placing them within the employment of the Court. But in October,
news came that she might face prosecution from OLAF. Nikolaou, who
worked for the Court of Auditors in Luxembourg for five years until
1991, has also been formally accused of falsifying documents allowing a
colleague to receive 30,000 euro in holiday pay.
It is important to note, that unlike other
whistle-blowers, one of Watt's responsibilities as auditor in the EU
Court of Auditors was to investigate corruption cases - as part
of the Court's annual report on activities financed from the EU Budget -
and so had privileged access to restricted information.
Turning a corner
Indeed, the mere fact that
OLAF has so far chosen not to follow them up, merely added to the
credibility of Watt's charges. Or so it would seem to most pundits
following the case. At the time of going to press, The Sprout has
since learnt that OLAF had indeed 'investigated' many of Watt's
allegations and that the EU's anti-fraud unit eagerly wants to talk to
the auditor to establish further evidence to move forward. This week,
while Dougal Watt returns to his job as auditor in the European Court of
Justice, OLAF will invite him - once again - to co-operate with its
investigation.
This time, he is ready to talk.
Stalemate? No longer
Since May, though,
Dougal Watt has been on sick leave, hiding in Scotland - a situation
that he feared had suited OLAF, which had earlier asked to interview
him. Without an interview, OLAF could only move forward on the case
within a very limited scope. However, at the time of going to press,
The Sprout received confirmation from OLAF officials that they
were "considering investigating further" the dossier, if they could
speak to Watt. The shift by OLAF, albeit it a minor one, could have
catastrophic implications for the EU institutions and Neil Kinnock's
administrative reform program, for three reasons.
Firstly, and perhaps most importantly, OLAF would have
to at least acknowledge that a structure of freemasons - made up of
individuals working within OLAF and the EU Court of auditors - exists
and has been effective in protecting its followers for at least ten
years. Secondly, that the suicide of a DG Agri official in April 1993
needs to be re-investigated - as the individual who killed himself was
almost certainly not a "lone operator" in what the EU Court of Auditors'
investigation had identified as a massive corruption case over impounded
tobacco sold to firms that have links to Mafia groups. The case was
conveniently, yet mysteriously, dropped the very moment the official
took his own life in April 1993. And thirdly, that the role and actions
of three key officials in the same case - two top Court Auditors in
Luxembourg and the then Director-General for Agriculture - need to be
cleared, beyond suspicion. Two of the CoA officials Dougal Watt
identifies as Masons - the chief reason for what he claims was a swift
cover-up of the investigation in 1993, that although was 'reviewed' by
his superiors in the EU Court of Auditors years later, never stood any
real chance of being properly investigated due to a strong Masonic
influence in the Luxembourg court and OLAF in Brussels.
The role of the "Third Man", the then Director-General
of DG Agriculture and current chief of the External Relations
Directorate-General, Guy Legras, needs to be exonerated, perhaps most of
all. Other articles in this section:
Quatraro case: What role did Legras play?
Quatraro: Was he about to betray superiors to
OLAF?
Paper trail of havoc: was Ramsay behind the
delay?
The
Ramsay connection: Cover-up, Legras and
Quatraro
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Whistlebowing in European
Union
The beginning of
September saw the launch by dissident staff of the EU institutions in Brussels
of a new nesletter. As the name suggests, Whistleblower Update aims to bring
concerned "citizens" of the Union up to date with the activities and fate of
those brave souls who have blown the lid on the festering dustbin of
corruption which is the European Commission and any unsavoury goings on at the
EU's other institutions.
Spectrezine is pleased to bring you edited highlights.
Whistleblowers in EU
institutions have done and are doing their part, risking health, career, and
happiness, hard day after hard day, enduring treatment which vilifies them as
bad guys 'n gals. The situation they have been and are being put through is
not encouraging for other officials, to say the very least. As several
whistleblowers put it: "Don't become one if you want to keep your house,
spouse or health".
So can we expect to
see MEPs doing their part? WBU hesitates to read the tea-leaves, but the signs
are not promising: e.g., recently COCOBU (the European Parliamentary Committee
on Budgetary Control decided not to ask Mr Prodi about Eurostat, but instead
left the getting of wisdom from the head of the Commission to the high
politics of the Conference of Presidents - who then got cold feet instead of
wisdom, and postponed. What sort of future do MEPs want for their
voters?
So, how is Paul van Buitenen
doing?
On 16 July 2003, in
the extra Cocobu meeting, Commissioner Kinnock said that Paul van Buitenen -
the man whose revelations brought down the Santer Commission in 1999 - could
come back to the EC any time he wanted. A suitable job would be found for him.
The very next day, Paul was indeed called to say somebody might have found a
place for him, and did he want to come to DG Admin to discuss this offer? Paul
was pleasantly surprised. Before the 16th of July, the letter in which he
asked to return to a suitable post in Brussels, had made three unsuccessful
rounds. It seems that until there was political pressure, nobody in the
Commission could be found who wanted to stick his neck out for Paul.
And Robert Dougal
Watt?
On 22 April 2002,
Dougal Watt blew the whistle in the European Court of Auditors. He became
persona non grata for his Secretary-General (SG) but not for his colleagues,
who largely supported his claims about a fiddling Court member and additional
wrongdoing, including cover-ups. Some of his strong recommendations given
along with his warnings were followed up soon after he blew the whistle:
contracts of all temporary secretarial personnel were extended to one year
minimum, thus reducing their vulnerability to harassment, and the task of
recruiting temporary personnel was transferred from the Court4s administrative
service to a new inter-institutional recruitment body. Furthermore, in
November 2002, OLAF recommended to Luxembourg and Greek state prosecutors that
Mrs Kalliopi Nikolaou, former Court Member 1999-2001, face charges of fraud.
OLAF also suggested to the ECA that a disciplinary procedure be initiated
against a former assistant of Mrs Nikolaou, now a European official, who was
reportedly charged with defrauding the Community budget of EUR 28000. But SG
Hervi has still not started the disciplinary procedure for this official.
Instead, on 17 July 2003 - Watt's 39th birthday - SG Michel Hervi fired Mr
Watt, after what seems to be a highly questionable procedure, covered by the
Glasgow Herald (and subsequently by www.euobserver.com), Daily Telegraph and
the Guardian. Mr Watt was given
no credit whatsoever.
How about Marta
Andreasen?
Andreasen's appeal
against her removal (to another job within the same DG) was presented to the
EC in December 2002. As per the Staff Regulations, Andreasen asked for the
Commission's response by 10 February. The EC requested an extension until 28
March; and eventually - in May! - sent a 200 page answer. Andreasen responded
in detail in July; and - again, Staff Regulation "rules is rules" - expected a
response by 10 September. But the Commission again asked for an extension,
this time until 24 October. When the Commission will actually respond, is
anybody's guess. But who cares? The taxpayer is forking out, to have a
qualified, committed and highly-trained professional out of work, for what may
be years - a sorry state of affairs. For her part, Mrs Andreasen has done her
best to return to the Commission. The Eurostat case, which the Commission
thinks it is tackling - albeit three years later than it had good reason to -
can count one very innocent victim in Andreasen, who all the time is banned
from Commission buildings and e-mail, as if that were a decent treatment. Ms
Andreasen applied in January 2003 for the published job of Director General of
Eurostat. Although it was officially announced that the post should be filled
by April 2003, Eurostat announced it was assessing candidates, and wrote to
her advising she would be informed of the result of her application by May
2003, at the latest. But this time came and went, and Andreasen heard nothing.
On 10 July, she wrote to the president and vice-presidents, informing them
that she had applied for the job. On 22 July the Personnel and Admin.
Department wrote to her to say, that on 9 July (just one day before Ms
Andreasen wrote her letter!), the Commission had decided to cover the post by
internal transfer of another Director General, Michel Vanden Abeele. If Mr
Franchet was to retire, why wasn't the post filled in in April? Why was Marta
never interviewed?
And Robert
McCoy?
On 19 March 2003
Robert McCoy, Internal Auditor of the Committee of the Regions and former
Financial Controller there, blew the whistle in a Cocobu meeting. McCoy's
claims focussed on travel expenses and the systemic absence of supporting
documents. MEP Van Hulten presented the case to OLAF. In July, President Fabra
Vallis of the European Court of Auditors wrote to President Bore of the
Committee of the Regions, to reassure him that McCoy's allegations had been
found to be unsubstantiated. OLAF, however, has issued an interim report which
contradicts these findings. But whistleblower McCoy hasn't been given a copy
of the "interim" report - to which he was the main contributor! And OLAF gives
no deadlines, as to when - or if - a version of its findings will be
published.
More from Whistle
Blower Update will be added as it appears.
http://www.spectrezine.org/europe/Whistleb.htm
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