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Independent European Office for Fraud Investigation in Scientific Projects

Independent European Office for Fraud Investigation in Scientific Projects

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Started by Anke Amor 11 years, 9 months ago


The anti-fraud office has been criticized because it is part of the European Commission and not a fully independent body. But its director and supervisory board insist they are free to carry out their investigations unhindered by their superiors in the institution.


OLAF is effectively hunting the companies and institutions from southern European countries (Malta, Spain, Italy, Bulgaria, Italy, Cyprus, Romania, Greece, Portugal). The same time, the Office is washing up all cases involving the countries from North and western Europe.


The OLAF has become the gunned arm of racist propaganda that present people from the western countries as a sort of new "Arian", while people from the south "carry the genes of thieves".


We need a new office, completely independent of the European Commission. An office which will investigate fraud in "virgin" areas, like the publicly funded research. The European Research Funding Agencies, as DG Research, DG Connect, ERC, ERCEA have become "gangs" of buddies who cover each other. It is no coincidence that these institutions never discover misconduct, when serious agencies like NSF report very serious cases every year!


In support of our case we present the OLAF "deafness" to a widely publicized case of massive malpractice in a publicly funded European project.


http://scapegoatinguk.wordpress.com


ecdigitalagenda.wordpress.com


whistleblowuk.wordpress.com


dgconnect.wordpress.com


hieraticplag.weebly.com/hieratic.html


tipacheater.wordpress.com


sciencefraud.wordpress.com


plagiarismex.wordpress.com




9 Comments

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Marco Weber
11 years ago Featured

Enough with the double standards. OLAF only goes after us in the south while the big projects in the north never get looked at. Total joke.

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Livia Montalbano
11 years ago Featured

The situation is amazing. Bravo, European Commission, you created the wonderland of all honest academics! Do you know how many student are found guilty of plagiarism in UK? Tens of thousands, every year! And they pretend they are saints!

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Abel Jameson
11 years ago

We feel that people working at OLAF take their jobs as personal businesses.

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Tizi Margaria
11 years ago

Yes, OLAF independent of EC, Kessler and British ring!

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Mette Oellegaard
11 years ago

Independent and NEW OLAF

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Tom Maibaum
11 years ago

Not even Robin Milner got such impressive amount of funding!

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Brennan Isabella
11 years ago

total support

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Gianna Carroll
11 years ago

Very good idea