European Fraud

The EU was set up to make fraud easy and it has been a great success. Read on. This is all public source information. And the publishers have not in the main been sued for telling lies. It is noticeable the Grauniad's coverage is rather less extensive than the Telegraph's. Obviously business expenses are tax free which is why they are so much more important than the basic income.

EUrofraud
The head of building services, one Pierre Parthoens had a multimegabuck budget until they found out that he was being investigated for fraud. He didn't bother to tell them. Their anti-fraud mob investigated him and said that they  found nothing. A journo from Der Stern found the truth. They gave him hassle for his pains. They seem all too keen on fraud. It can provide a very nice tax free living. See page 9 of Private Eye 1150

 

Euro MPs and Their Expenses
Their expenses are lavish, tax free and legal. Then of course there can be other inducements to do what lobbyists want. There is never any shortage of candidates wanting their snouts in a very pleasant trough.

 

EU and Euro Slammed – 'Festering Dustbin of Corruption' Call for Credit Downgrade - Massive illegal use of public funds, says new independent report
Sounds about right to me. A magazine called  International Currency Review has been looking at their accounts and their approach to accounts. These guys are in the business and they reckon that the game is wide open to corruption. With Ities, Frogs etc. it is a cert that that are going to do as much thieving as they think can get away with. To be fair there are Brits with light fingers too.

 

EUrofraud Update
Fraud is just normal in Europe and if you think that is bad, look at the United Nations; united in a determination to take it for every penny it is worth.

 

How to Maximize Your Expenses: Advice to new Members of the European Parliament
Fraud does not come into it. You show them your boarding pass and they give you the money. You do not have to tell any fibs or say that you actually spent it. You just claim your allowance. Air fares are a very nice little earner – worth maybe £600 a week. Naturally it is tax free. And that is just one of the totally legal moves. Of course it is only tax payers' money so nobody cares.

Then there is the attendance allowance [ note the word allowance ] of €262 (£180) – widely known as the ‘sign-on and sod-off’ fee – is just as remarkable. In order to claim this it is merely necessary to sign on before 10 am on any or all of the 155 days on which the European Parliament sits; there is no need to speak in a debate or even to stay.

 The attendance allowance is paid to cover accommodation and meals.  In reality, most MEPs have wisely bought flats in Brussels, many of which are sub-let to research assistants who hand back part of the income they receive from the Member’s staff allowance (see below) as rent.  As for meals there is no reason to spend a penny of your allowance or your £56,000 salary - salaries are presently set at the same levels as those received by members of their national parliaments.  To eat well simply flag down a passing lobbyist who will be delighted to take you to breakfast, lunch or dinner.

Truly we are well governed or just expensively governed. Cuisine in Brussels is world class

 

EU Auditors Report And The Commission's Replies
QUOTE ex A Monkey monkey@monkey.com in message news:Xns9A5E5D4D6C0Fsimian@194.177.96.78
EU accountants have been investigating whether the hundreds of billions
spent on regional aid over the past ten years has been well spent.
There are cases where nobody knew if money was needed or not, but the EU
awarded grants anyway.
There are cases where grants were made even if the project was making
money.
There are cases where nobody has bothered finding out if the grants were
put to good use.......
UNQUOTE
The men running the gravy train are doing VERY nicely and they have every intention of keeping it that way.

 

European Fraud II
Has it gotten any better? Not a hope in Hell. Worse quite possibly but consistent. They like power. They like money and stealing it is the name of the game.

 

European Corruption Survey Won By Greece [ 11 December 2008 ]
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At European Union level 78% of respondents consider that there is corruption in national institutions. More than nine out of ten citizens, however, express that view in Greece, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Portugal and Slovakia. Moreover Greek citizens also are most likely (95%) to consider that corruption exists in their regional and local institutions. The view that corruption exists in institutions at local and regional levels is also very widespread in Poland, the Czech Republic, Portugal and Slovakia. Citizens in Denmark and Finland are the most likely to consider that there is no corruption in their national, regional and local institutions.
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78% of people are right. Police in England are less likely to ask for bribes unless they know who they are dealing with. This proves superior cunning - see New countries top EU bribery poll
PS The EU which sponsored this survey had its accounts rejected by the auditors as being fraudulent yet again.
PPS Anyone who doesn't think politicians and officials giving government contracts are not bent as nine bob notes can read all about on time, every time in Private Eye.
PPS Blair has made £12 million since he walked.

 

Auditors refuse to sign off Brussels accounts [ 24 October 2006 ]
QUOTE
The European Union’s auditors on Monday refused to sign off its accounts for the 12th year in a row as a dispute erupted over how they go about their job.

Siim Kallas, the administration commissioner, on Monday criticized the working methods of the Luxembourg-based court of auditors in an interview with the Financial Times.

The court certified the EU’s administration, development and some agricultural spending, but found errors in programmes accounting for around two-thirds of its €105 billion (£70 billion, $130 billion) budget, particularly structural funds going to poorer regions. These included incorrect paperwork, missing documents and possible fraud.
UNQUOTE
These are the people who tell us how to run our lives and produce ever more intrusive regulations. If company were run like this the directors would looking at prison sentences. The complaints are merely a distraction.

 

Europe squanders billions in aid for former Soviet states [ 24 April 2006 ]
Thieving or incompetence? Conspiracy or cock up? Given the EU's record of enthusiastic corruption it would be unwise to assume any thing else. Of course a degree of incompetence can be fed in to cloud the issue. When some one does babble he is the one that gets aggravation; not the guilty.

US$11.6 billion disappeared into a black hole and some US$8 billion got stolen. That sets a standard of large scale greed that tells what they are capable of.

 

Austrian Bank Scandal - When Socialists Play With Money [ 9 April 2006 ]
As a change from sedition, treason and invasion we have big time fraud.
QUOTE
A major banking scandal is rocking the Austrian political elites – left and right. A bank owned by the Socialist trade union [ that sounds bad before you go any further - editor ] (which is close to the Socialist Party SPÖ, currently in opposition) loses billions in shady hedge deals while the union strike fund evaporates in the Caribbean and the bank gets implicated in a corruption case in Israel. Meanwhile the bank is financed by the European Investment Bank (EIB), and an Austrian Finance Ministry official (married to the Socialist ex-chief of the bank) ignores a crucial report and is appointed to the Executive Board of the European Central Bank (ECB). The Conservative Finance Minister claims to know nothing – after just having sold the Government-owned Post Office Savings Bank (PSK) to the socialist bank. Welcome to Austria, presently presiding the European Union council of ministers.
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It gets worse. This is the den of thieves that Blair, Brown et al want us to be in without any way out. They make the BCCI mob sound straightforward and would you believe that there is a tie in to the Sharon corruption job? See corruption allegations against members of Sharon’s family and wonder why we need the Chinese People's Daily to tell us about European political crime.

 

EU Accounts Are Fraudulent  [ 16 November 2005 ]
This is the eleventh year that the auditors have refused to accept the accounts. Given that the auditors are crooked too this is remarkable. If businessmen ran their firms that way they would be in prison. The EU is a corrupt conspiracy to destroy democracy. The fraud keeps the thieves happy while the vicious enslave us.

 

Blair and Bribes  [ 10 November 2005 ]
Senior man signs contract with  government supplier, retires and get senior job with aforesaid firm. Bribery? If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck it just might be a duck. Blair is making it easier for them to get away with it. When he walks he will get the cushy little number too. Remember how Mandelson was kicked upstairs. You will have buy Private Eye number 1145 to find out what other papers do not bother to tell you.
PS This is Anglo-fraud rather than European.

 

Blunkett and Lies  [ 10 November 2005 ]
He claimed that he sold the shares that he had put in trust. Ask any lawyer who does trusts just how that could be, but it was a good lie; good enough to get rid of the journos for a while. See Private Eye number 1145 for the nitty gritty. You will have to pay money but you get value.

 

Herbal remedies under threat from 'ludicrous' law [ 31 October 2005 ]
Big pharmaceutical outfits are moving the goal posts to screw the little people. The EU is deeply corrupt and this is an example.

 

The two faces of the commission  [ 26 July 2005 ]
Vicious and dangerous when their fraud is questioned. Democracy? Not on your life.

 

Douglas Watt - EU's Whistleblower [ 26 July 2005 ]
He talked about fraud in the EU and thinks that he might be murdered for his pains. An Italian. one Antonio Quatraro already has. In fact he accuses the auditors of being bent. Their job is to keep the rest honest. Some fifteen of them are thought to be on the take by people who might well know.