Simon Van Dorpe
Investigative Journalist at @FollowtheMoney.bsky.social. Covering EU affairs, with a focus on anti-fraud, corruption and industrial policy. DM or email on simon.van.dorpe@ftm.eu
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- ⚡ The European Commission has once again suspended IBF International Consulting from bidding on new EU tenders for two years due to alleged "grave professional misconduct." IBF has challenged the decision before the EU General Court. (1/3)
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- Who needs corruption indices when you can just read who signed up for Trump's peace board 🤷♂️
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- 💥 NEW: Israel’s largest defence company, Elbit Systems, has been suspended by NATO’s procurement agency amid a major corruption probe. Belgian police are looking for an Elbit consultant suspected of corruption and criminal organisation www.ftm.eu/articles/isr...
- Reposted by Simon Van Dorpenew: Mogherini resigns as College of Europe rector amid fraud probe www.euractiv.com/news/mogheri...
- 📣 Ritter also convincingly won the council vote (82 votes v 54 for second candidate) and will be the next European Chief Prosecutor
- 🔥 After a confident show in this morning's hearing, MEPs want Andrés Ritter, the EPPO's current deputy chief prosecutor to take over from Laura Kövesi. EU countries will soon announce their preferred candidate. If that is Ritter, too, it's settled www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...
- 🔥 After a confident show in this morning's hearing, MEPs want Andrés Ritter, the EPPO's current deputy chief prosecutor to take over from Laura Kövesi. EU countries will soon announce their preferred candidate. If that is Ritter, too, it's settled www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...
- 👀 EU prosecutors are carrying out raids at the College of Europe in Bruges and the EEAS in Brussels as part of a probe into suspected fraud related to EU-funded training for junior diplomats. Three suspects were detained. www.eppo.europa.eu/en/media/new...
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- 🔥 NATO procurement chief Stacy Cummings came under fire twice this year from top officials within her agency. They accuse her of not tackling corruption, favouritism and undue interference. Today, @ftm.eu publishes the documents, with @lalettre.bsky.social and @lesoir.be www.ftm.eu/articles/nat...
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- More than half of possible fraud cases the European Court of Auditors (ECA) transfers to EPPO/OLAF for further investigation relates to cohesion policy, ECA member Stef Blok says
- ‼️ EU prosecutors dropped a probe into EPP chief Manfred Weber and two of his aides. They were investigating whether EU money was used to pay national party staff, but said today: "there are no reasonable grounds to believe that a criminal offence has been committed" www.ftm.eu/articles/eu-...
- How five years were reduced to twenty days 🫠. Nicolas Sarkozy will be released from prison, French media report. Despite his own 2012 campaign promise that "No one should be released from their sentence before having served at least two-thirds of it." www.lemonde.fr/societe/arti...
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- 🔥 Ex-EU justice chief Didier Reynders charged with money laundering. @ftm.eu SCOOP with @lesoir.be @standaard.be and Le Vif www.ftm.eu/articles/rey...
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- ⚠️ At a time of exploding military expenditure, the NATO corruption scandal revealed this week by @ftm.eu, @lalettre.bsky.social, @lesoir.be and @knack.be highlights the need to strengthen procurement controls. Read our today's newsletter for the latest ⤵️ www.ftm.eu/articles/nat...
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- ‼️ In case you missed it ⤵️
- 💥 Here’s what you need to know about #Natogate, the corruption scandal that broke today, in 10 skeets #bagsofcash #ammunition #NSPA (link to full stories below)
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- 💥 Here’s what you need to know about #Natogate, the corruption scandal that broke today, in 10 skeets #bagsofcash #ammunition #NSPA (link to full stories below)
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- Impact EU antitrust announcement at 11:45 on #SAP share price. Looks like the company quickly recovered from a relatively small hit
- 🔥Breaking: EU Commission opens antitrust investigation into #SAP, Germany's largest (and Europe's second largest) company, for allegedly restricting competition in support services on its popular ERP software. Five years ago, I wrote this story for @politico.eu www.politico.eu/article/pres...
- 🔥Breaking: EU Commission opens antitrust investigation into #SAP, Germany's largest (and Europe's second largest) company, for allegedly restricting competition in support services on its popular ERP software. Five years ago, I wrote this story for @politico.eu www.politico.eu/article/pres...
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- Many ask why the platform I work for is called Follow the Money. The answer lies in this iconic scene with the late #RobertRedford. It inspired our founders @arnevanderwal.bsky.social and Eric Smit to start @ftm.nl 15 years ago. ⏩ Jump to 2:30 if you're short on time
- I was just accidentally added to a chat group of politicians but I was too honest and have already been removed. There goes my Pulitzer 😞
- Indeed, nice words that are hard to rhyme with how Ursula von der Leyen runs the European Commission. The lack of self-criticism and the double standards are blinding
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- 🔥 Laura Kövesi, the first European Chief Prosecutor, has locked horns with EU institutions and powerful political figures. Insiders question if her successor, whose appointment process is in full swing, will continue to crack the whip. ✅ Free to read today on @ftm.eu ⤵️ www.ftm.eu/articles/eu-...
- @ftm.eu's crime and corruption newsletter is back after a revitalising summer break 🔥 Today: ✅ Belgium’s top prosecutor on corruption probes ✅ A tour of Europe of this summer's corruption news ✅ ING under criminal scrutiny in Didier Reynders probe Read it here ⤵️ www.ftm.eu/newsletters/...
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- At @ftm.eu, we obviously hope the next 🇪🇺 budget will be more transparent, but the way @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu said it, was not entirely convincing
- 📣 The European Parliament wants EPPO candidate Peter Klement to lead European anti-fraud office OLAF. The order still needs to be endorsed by EU countries (should not be an obstacle, I’m told). The Commission will have the final say, but this order will be hard to ignore
- 🔥 NEWS from the Didier Reynders investigation ⤵️
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- Central Europe is well represented in race to lead @euantifraud.bsky.social, with (in order of appearance) a Czech, a Polish and a Slovak candidate. Italian is most likely to drop as @euparliament.bsky.social and @press.consilium.europa.eu bring list down to 3 candidates, we hear
- 🆕 The 4 candidates to become the new chief of EU antifraud office OLAF are Petr Klement (EPPO), Joanna Krzeminska-Vamvaka (EEAS, Former OLAF), Ladislav Hamran (Eurojust President until January) and Gabriele Failla (Guardia di Finanza). They will be heard by EU Parliament CONT committee on 14 July
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- ‼️ In March, Huawei’s EU corruption scandal made headlines across the world. Today, @ftm.eu returns with an insiders’ perspective: ten former employees shared their experience with the tech giant’s Brussels office … and its rogue lobbyist. Read the full story for free today www.ftm.eu/articles/hua...
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- Similarly to a rule-of-law conditionality, EU Chief Prosecutor #LauraKövesi calls for a “judicial cooperation conditionality” with countries outside the EU “to cripple the financial power of organised criminal groups in Europe” #ABC2025
