EPO Cocainegate: Feedback and Clarifications
The EPO will have a hard time trying to defend this; what will it media spokesperson say (if he's still around to speak)?
That the EPO's top-level management uses cocaine is now a verified fact, not just hearsay (this gossip goes at least 5 years back; we kept hearing it in relation to António Campinos). It is only a question is how widespread this cocaine use it (at the EPO's higher echelons, specifically).
"Your recent post about EPO and cocaine [managed to] draw my attention," one reader said. "It doesn't surprise me," he added, "but what indeed surprises me is that this kind of affairs wasn't disclosed before."
"The EPO is more than cocaine, all kind[s] of traffics [sic] I would say, drugs, prostitution, money laundering or nearly any criminal activity you may imagine."
Fraud also. It's nice to have diplomatic immunity, is it not?
We keep hearing about nepotism, including bedroom nepotism (basically people one sleeps with getting promoted).
"You may want to check the profile of a recently-retired EPO apparatchik Yvan de la Fuente."
He was mentioned 6 years ago.
"Search for images in DDG, for instance, before they disappear, check his LinkedIn profile."
"This guy had a rocket career," we heard, "but why?"
Well, over a month has passed since Luis Berenguer Giménez was arrested for cocaine and here he is (right now!):
So even today he is still at the very top of the EPO. What message does that send to EPO stakeholders?
Now the EPO has more than a patent quality crisis; they have a management quality crisis.
To be clear, the young lady we mentioned earlier could be his daughter, but I asked my wife if a father his in 50s should grip his daughter's waist/girth like this and she said definitely no. We'll cover this some other day. Either way, it's likely somewhat of a distraction from "Cocainegate". Part III will come out soon. █