Dear Marco,

As you may know – for me it was new - there is a new communication on whistleblowing in the pipeline (for 6/12) and Christoph asked me for some good "anonymised" examples of OLAF cases with whistleblowers in order to be prepared for possible questions by the press.

I read the draft communication and made some comments/suggestions.  However, I found out in the meantime that if this draft is accepted, we should urgently adapt our OLAF website (cf. annex) on fraud reporting accordingly.

For the time being I only found two "bad" examples in my closed cases (Lybia security and NYC Art Gallery) and one example that is referred to as the Cocoon case and that is apparently already known to IDOC.  Recently, I received something that seems to be a good example (Delegation Algeria) but as far as I know it did not yet get a case number as we were awaiting more specific information which arrived today.

I will come to your office to discuss these issues.

Kind regards,

Anton.

From: PECORARO Marco (OLAF)
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 2:21 PM
To: PENNEMAN Anton (OLAF); SCHIEBLE Christoph (HR)
Cc: DE MOOR Stefan (OLAF)
Subject: RE: Guidelines on Whisteblowing

Anton,

Could you please clarify what this is about?

Marco

From: PENNEMAN Anton (OLAF)
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 2:01 PM
To: SCHIEBLE Christoph (HR)
Cc: PECORARO Marco (OLAF); DE MOOR Stefan (OLAF)
Subject: RE: Guidelines on Whisteblowing

Dear Christoph,

For what it is worth, I leave you some suggestions for clarification in the draft.

The question you asked me over the phone should in principle be answered by my OLAF colleague(s) who provided you with the following nice sentence in the introduction of the draft communication… " While these rules have already triggered a number of significant investigations by the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF[AP1]   ), some staff may be reticent to make full use of the whistleblowing procedure, because of a fear of negative repercussions on their reputation or career."

Anyway, I will go through the cases  for which I drafted an opinion since February 2012 and I hope that I will find some good examples to help you out but as I told you already I have no spontaneous recollection of "good" examples that we can sell to press.

Kind regards,

Anton PENNEMAN
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From: SCHIEBLE Christoph (HR)
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 1:07 PM
To: PENNEMAN Anton (OLAF)
Subject: FW: Guidelines on Whisteblowing

From: SCHIEBLE Christoph (HR)
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 1:06 PM
To: PENNEMAN Anton (OLAF)
Subject: Guidelines on Whisteblowing

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