Now Will Serious Fraud Office Act on EU Fraud?
After a damning report on the incompetence of the UK 's Serious Fraud Office under the previous chief executive, a new opportunity has arisen to have the SFO undertake a thorough investigation of the EU's accounts. It has been an open secret for more than a decade that the EU misuses British taxpayers money on a large scale, and then fails to produce proper accounts.
Four years ago an invitation to the SFO to make such an investigation, which was supported by the delivery of several boxes of carefully identified and authenticated documents, was summarily dismissed - not once but twice. We now know why. The CEO was there not to rock the boat.
A new CEO might just take up the challenge. Hence the following letter:
13 February 2009
Mr R Alderman
Director
Serious Fraud Office
London
Some three years ago I submitted a large dossier to your predecessor Robert Wardle concerning the fraudulent use of British taxpayers’ money by the European Union. Given what we now know about Mr Wardle’s tenure, his decision to dismiss the evidence provided is no longer surprising.
Since that time, of course, the SFO has been the subject of a secret report on the incompetence of your predecessor by the American lawyer Jessica de Grazia. On my side of the fence, so to speak, three more years as an active member of the European Parliament’s Budget Control Committee has revealed, appallingly, more of the same incompetence and fraud.
Most recently Commissioner Siim Kallas, responsible for EU administration, has invented a new concept which he calls “tolerable risk” as a means of excusing the known errors and incompetencies in the EU’s accounts. “Tolerable risk” is of course a nonsense in that it tries to blur the distinction between known specific errors and systemic failure.
I enclose with this letter, a recent letter of mine to Vitor Caldeira, the President of the Court of Auditors, which also highlights the fundamental illegality of British contributions to the European Union’s budget.
I have been advised over the last five years by a number of experienced bureaucrats and a UK-based forensic accountant, all of whom are deeply concerned about the EU’s continuous misuse of British taxpayers money, and their chronic inability to produce acceptable accounts.
If you have a mind to do so, I would gladly submit a new dossier to the Serious Fraud Office so that this matter might finally be investigated properly on behalf of British taxpayers.
Ashley Mote MEP
Enclosed: copy of letter to
Vítor Manuel da SILVA CALDEIRA,
president, Court of Auditors,
Luxembourg
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