The "Alicante Mafia" - Part IX - EPO Budget Funnelled Into Cocaine and Moreover Rewards Cocaine-Addicted Management for Getting Busted by Police
Media intentionally quiet about it.
The EPO's "Alicante Mafia" [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8] is a disgrace and it is connected to a disgraceful legal system where the industry controls the judges and judgements. Put another way, Europe's patent system has become dominated by corruption. Or corruption is now the norm. The "issue" (if you believe EPO management) is that people speak about this corruption, not the corruption itself. As if being against corruption and talking about corruption 'discredits' the system.
The Central Staff Committee spoke about further pension erosion the other day. See, the people who run the Office (or abuse the office) pretend there are financial issues when they are in fact illegally granting patents to make more money.
The Central Staff Committee circulated the following 1-page document about a "blow to the younger colleagues". We reproduce it below:
Zentraler Personalausschuss
Central Staff Committee
Le Comité Central du PersonnelPage 1 of 1
Munich, 15-01-2026
sc26008cpTransferring your pension rights to the EPO now significantly less valuable
Another blow to the younger colleagues
Dear colleagues,
Following the recent decision to shift to a lower “risk tolerance” for our investment funds, the assumed discount rate used by the pension fund has been reduced drastically from 3.25% to 2.2%. This policy change has already resulted in substantially higher pension contributions for staff, disproportionately placing the burden on the younger staff and benefitting a select few upper managers. This has even had the impact of the salary slips of staff working in Germany or Austria being lower in January 2026 than in December 2025.
We have now learned that the same revised discount rate has been applied to the transfer coefficients governing pension transfer-ins. The consequence is that identical transfer-in amounts will soon equate to markedly fewer reckonable years of service. The transfer coefficients are age and pension scheme (OPS/NPS) dependent and the percentage change from the ones in force is in the range of 10% to 73%!
As an example:
• For a staff member aged 34, the same transferred capital now yields only around two-thirds of the reckonable service years previously credited, so what is worth 9 years now will only be worth 6 years!
This represents a major reduction in the value of pension transfer-ins, again negatively impacting the same group of staff by creating financial consequences for our newer colleagues and those yet to join us who intend, or are in the process of, transferring pension rights to the EPO.
In the past, the administration has chosen not to implement other actuarially neutral coefficients calculated by the actuarial advisory group related to early retirement for “policy reasons”. Therefore, considering the unequal burden that the younger staff are experiencing, we call for the administration to take a similar stance and not implement these coefficients, leaving the current ones in force.
The Central Staff Committee
So they're taking away money from the workers while 1) bribing the "voters" in the administrative body (the AC); 2) paying a lot of money to cokeheads in management (even those on paid sick leave, which they fake); 3) diverting spare funds (which the EPO isn't meant to have) into a sort of pyramid scheme.
Any day that passes without European media and European politicians doing anything about it merely discredits the media and the EU (or national governments). It makes them look totally complicit and some of them receive bribes to play along, which may mean they don't just look complicit but are complicit. █