Nepotism and favouritism at OLAF
Dear Secretariat General of the European Commission,
Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as developed in Regulation 1049/2001, I am requesting documents which contain the following information:
How could you explain that the Director General of OLAF mandates investigations on cases of lack of transparency and nepotism on the nominations of managers in commission services and institutions but, at same time, has carried out an artificial "reorganisation" with the unique aim of creating a new unit for his "Assistant" who has been automatically appointed "Deputy Head of Unit" and "Acting Head of Unit" of that new Unit?
Other colleagues that have been recently nominated Deputy Head of Unit have followed a selection process that has given opportunities to all interested candidates. However no selection process was launched for that post in that new Unit.
Could the Director General of OLAF publicly inform when the post of HoU of the new Unit will be published for appointing a HoU or, as everybody suspects, the post will be vacant until the moment that the Assistant and now acting HoU will have the necessary grade and seniority to apply to the post?
Is that the reason why, also by chance the same person "the assistant" who is AD7, who was promoted just 2 years ago, has been proposed again for promotion this year with much less seniority than other candidates and when the promotion quotas has been drastically reduced for OLAF staff?
It is supposed that OLAF, that is one of the guardian of the reputation of the institutions, should apply strict rules on staff promotion and manager’s nominations given example to others ...but the reality shows that the favouritism, the nepotism and the lack of equal treatment is the practice at the Commission anti fraud service.
Yours faithfully,
Philipp Schmidt
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