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From Tim Worstall: Glorious Europa!:

“So far, no Eurostat official has been punished for the diversion of £3m of taxpayer funds into illegal accounts over three years ago in a scam described as a ‘vast enterprise of looting’ by investigators.

All the accused - mostly French officials - are still working for the EU or have retired with full pensions.

But the EU accountant who helped uncover the Eurostat abuses, Dorte Schmidt-Brown, fled home to Denmark after being subjected to a campaign of threats and harassment.
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Yesterday the European Court of First Instance refused her claim for redress and ordered her to pay her own costs.
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Jens-Peter Bonde, a Danish MEP, said the only two people have ever been ‘punished’ for the affair: the whistleblower herself and the German journalist who broke the story, Hans-Martin Tillack, who was arrested by Belgian police on the basis of charges now proved to have been trumped up by the Commission itself.

The police seized Mr Tillack’s computers, telephones, address books and five years of investigative files, exposing his inside sources. In his recent case, the European Court also ruled in favour of Brussels, even though seizure of a reporter’s notes are a breach of European human rights law.”

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