EPO People Power - Part III - Challenging Corruption
Pursuing accountability
In Part I and in Part II we spoke about corruption at the EPO - a topic that the corrupt try to suppress (the usual tactics). The media - as in the national press - isn't interested in writing about it. First, there's the "cash cow" aspect (lack of political will); second, the EPO misuses its oversized - inflated by cheating - budget to bribe the media (also academia), as we've been showing for years already.
The person who managed the media for the EPO (Berenguer) got busted for cocaine. Insiders tell us he's one of many cocaine users in top-level EPO management and moreover he has brought many of his friends (dubbed "the Mafia") to occupy key positions. This, apparently, simply does not interest the media in Europe, with rare exceptions.
"Although he clearly lacks the qualification to lead a department at such a colossal organisation located in several countries," one insider recently told us about Berenguer, "he got offered his position by Campinos for being a loyalist and, what I would describe as a "charming swindler". Berenguer has mastered the art of lying to your face without any sense of shame while you know the opposite to be true, like giving you false career promises which he has done on numerous occasions, or pretending to stand up for your cause while he only stands up for himself. He is the proverbial corrupt lawyer who now could easily lose his admission to practice law if he is prosecuted for cocaine possession."
We'll carry on writing about this topic well into the next year. █
