• the European Commission harboured a major and documented fraud on EU funds, for which no-one has ever been prosecuted, neither in the Commission, nor in the Member States involved, i.e., Italy and Greece;
• the Commission’s internal investigation unit, UCLAF, covered up the nature and extent of the “Quatraro Case” corruption, in 1993; suppressing Dr Quatraro’s admission, made just before he died, that others in the Commission were involved; and suppressing those inconvenient facts of the case which implied he did not act alone.  OLAF, successor of UCLAF, continued to maintain the UCLAF “line”, as late as 2001; despite its knowledge of Dr Quatraro’s admission; and despite the presentation by the Court of Auditors in 2001 of fresh evidence inconsistent with the UCLAF/OLAF analysis;
• the hierarchy of the European Parliament was misled, 1993-2001, as to the true nature and extent of the “Quatraro Case”; but has responded with public indifference to the information that it was misled, and to the evidence of cover-up.  And although my allegations against the Court precipitated an internal enquiry by the institution, the results of which I understand have been privately passed to the European Parliament’s Budgetary Control Committee; yet that Committee’s members neither acknowledge my contribution, nor protest the Court’s vindictive pursuit of the “whistleblower” who gave rise to that internal enquiry.  The Court has not informed me of the existence of that internal enquiry; has not sought my participation; has not informed me of its results; yet is pursuing a disciplinary procedure against me for “blowing the whistle”;
• the European Court of Auditors failed to identify the UCLAF “whitewash” of the “Quatraro Case” in 1993; refused to reconsider its verdict even when new evidence undermining the OLAF version of events came to light; and, in December 2001, my internal allegation addressed to the President of the Court, claiming that evidence pertinent to a murder enquiry was not being followed up, neither by OLAF nor by my superiors – elicited no response; 
• HM Treasury and the UK Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee have disregarded the evidence which I have presented of corruption in the European Court of Auditors; disregarded the evidence which I have presented regarding OLAF’s ten-year cover-up of the “Quatraro Case”; and disregarded my allegation that the UK National Audit Office, my former employer, had a corporate knowledge via its seconded staff of nepotism and abuse in the European Court of Auditors.

I submit that any impartial examination of the “Quatraro Case” and its mishandling, along with the established facts of corruption in the European Court of Auditors, will reveal serial failure by all of the bodies charged with protecting taxpayers’ money spent by “Europe”.  Reliance cannot be placed upon the accounts, as the Commission’s own Chief Accountant has revealed.  Reliance cannot be placed upon the Court of Auditors, which has itself harboured corruption.  Reliance cannot be placed upon the fraud investigation service, which failed to pursue, and then covered up, a major case of corruption involving the death of a Commission official.  Reliance cannot be placed upon the oversight of the European Parliament, the hierarchy of which has failed to react to evidence of serious wrong-doing in both the Court of Auditors and OLAF.  And it seems reliance cannot even be placed on HM Treasury, the National Audit Office, nor the Public Accounts Committee, the national bodies with responsibilities for oversight of British taxpayers’ money spent by “Europe”.  The only investigative “follow-up” of my allegations to date, has been by the Brussels-based on-line monthly publication, “The Sprout”.