Britannia Radio

reported this at the time  - see---
"The crooks are in charge."  9/11/07
"A small victory for FREEDOM"  28/11/07
"EU's Fraud Office lies"  1/12/07
"Brazen corruption" 6/12/07
"Innocent man vindicated - EU crook not even censured" 30/1/08
"Journalist, vindicated, hits back at  EU"  4/2/08
"The fate of an honest man in the EU"   15/4/08

As I wrote on 28/11/07 - -

"This is great news -as far as it goes - for freedom but tempered by 
the fact that the EU washes its hands of its own foul deeds .

What hypocrites and cowards,  hiding behind a legal fiction, when the 
source of all the corruption is inside the EU Commission. It is 
closely linked to OLAF whose pretend purpose is to uncover and root 
out corruption.  It is the most corrupt body of all and it 
masterminded the Belgian police's actions."

And now he's cleared finally but no apology, and no compensation and 
no damages.

It's a mockery of justice - but, then, it's the EU so one mustn't 
expect justice.

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EU OBSERVER  6.1.09
German reporter comes out on top in EU bribery case
ELITSA VUCHEVA

BRUSSELS - The Belgian judiciary on Tuesday (6 December) definitively 
closed a case brought by EU anti-fraud office OLAF against the 
Brussels-based German journalist Hans-Martin Tillack in 2004.

"The Belgians by themselves decided to close the case now at last," 
Mr Tillack told a press conference after the country's public 
prosecutor concluded that there was not enough evidence against the 
journalist.

The saga started almost five years ago when OLAF suggested the 
reporter, working for German news magazine Stern, had bribed EU 
officials in order to gather documents for an article he published in 
2002 on alleged irregularities in OLAF.

An action by Belgian police then followed which resulted in the 
journalist being detained by the police for several hours, his home 
and office being searched, and possessions including 16 boxes of 
documents, two archive boxes, two computers and four mobile phones 
being seized.

The hundreds of pages of seized documents were eventually returned to 
him last year.

Prior to this, the European court of human rights in 2007 judged that 
Mr Tillack's right to freedom of expression had been violated and 
asked Belgium to pay him ?10,000 for "moral damages" as well as 
?30,000 in costs.

On Monday, Mr Tillack said that he hoped the affair would serve as a 
lesson to the European Commission when it comes to respecting 
journalists' rights and freedom of expression.

Siim Kallas, EU commissioner for administrative Affairs, audit and 
anti-fraud, has previously stated that he would "draw conclusions 
from this case when it's over," Mr Tillack said.

"Perhaps now is the time for the commission to look at the way OLAF 
was handling this case. There are many questions which have to be 
still solved regarding the behaviour of OLAF and the European 
commission and perhaps Mr Kallas should now put his actions where his 
words were," he added.

Aidan White, general secretary of the European Federation of 
Journalists (EFJ) which supported Mr Tillack throughout the case, 
stressed th the need for EU officials to apologise to the journalist.
"Those responsible within the EU and its investigation office OLAF 
should apologise publicly for their mistakes and for the damage they 
have caused. So far, there has been no hint of any regret from anyone 
within the EU," he said, adding that this was a sign of "arrogance."

For its part, the commission has always stressed OLAF is an 
independent body and denied any responsibility for the affa