{"id":38711,"date":"2016-12-09T09:40:53","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T07:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sg.admk-dev.de\/deltour-appeal-press-conference\/"},"modified":"2016-12-09T09:40:53","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T07:40:53","slug":"deltour-appeal-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sven-giegold.de\/en\/deltour-appeal-press-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Deltour appeal &#8211; Press Conference Monday, 11:30 am, Luxembourg \/ Online discussion Tuesday, 8:00 pm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This Monday in Luxembourg, the appeal of Antoine Deltour as well as his co-defendents Raphael Halet und Edouard Perrin will begin. The former employee of PwC was, in cooperation with Halet and the journalist Perrin, the whistleblower behind the so-called Luxleaks scandal. He is accused of data theft and the transmission of business secrets. In June, he was sentenced to one year&#8217;s suspended suspence and a fine. I served as witness for the defence (1).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Greens\/EFA Group invites you to a press conference in Luxembourg on the appeal procedure:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Monday, December 12, 11:30 am<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Representation of the European Parliament in Luxembourg<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (7, rue du March\u00e9 aux Herbes, L2920, Luxembourg)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>And live:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/greensefa\/?fref=ts\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/greensefa\/?fref=ts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The MEPs present will be <\/span><b>Pascal Durand, Benedek Javor<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>Claude Turmes and myself<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. In addition, we have invited the four whistleblowers <\/span><b>Ana Garrido Ramos, Jonathan Sugarman, Brigitte Heinisch and Andr\u00e1s Horv\u00e1th<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 see below for further info (2).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Tuesday, 8:00 pm you have the chance to directly discuss the trial and the challanges we face to support and protect whistleblowers with Antoine Deltour himself in my online discussion \u201cEurope Calling\u201d. Furthermore, we will have the expertise of my colleague Julia Reda MEP and Anja Osterhaus from Transparency International. Please, finde more information and the link zu register for the discussion: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sven-giegold.de\/2016\/europe-calling-whistleblowing\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/sven-giegold.de\/2016\/europe-calling-whistleblowing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(1): <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sven-giegold.de\/2016\/luxleaks-trial-refusal-eu-commissioner-vestager-give-evidence-poor-show\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/sven-giegold.de\/2016\/luxleaks-trial-refusal-eu-commissioner-vestager-give-evidence-poor-show\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(2):<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Ana Garrido Ramos:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> A key witness in the nation-wide corruption scandal embroiling the PP Party in Spain, she used to work in a local government (Boadilla del Monte, Madrid) until she discovered corruption in the awarding of public contracts. After suffering harassment at work she was awarded \u20ac95,000 in damages. However, the government of Boadilla appealed, so she\u2019s had to sell her assets and now makes jewellery for a living to pay for the court costs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Jonathan Sugarman:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> He was a Risk Manager of UniCredit Bank Ireland until he resigned from the post in September 2007, after which he reported serious financial irregularities to the Irish Financial Regulator. Essentially, the bank was pretending that it had a level of liquidity that was false. He reported this 14 months before the banking crisis exploded in Ireland and across Europe. The regulators failed to act on his alert, and he has now been unable to work for the past 9 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Brigitte Heinisch:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Germany)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She used to work in a state-owned nursing home in Berlin and discovered systematic practices of sub-standard health conditions, including examples of patients left in their own excrement for hours. She alerted her superiors but then eventually took the case to court as no action was taken in response. After fighting the case in the German courts for 7 years, she sought recourse before the European Court for Human Rights in Strasbourg, and won the case in a landmark ruling (HEINISCH v. GERMANY No. 28274\/08)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Andr\u00e1s Horv\u00e1th<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Hungary)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He used to work as a tax inspector with Hungary\u2019s National Tax and Customs Administration (NAV), and exposed corruption at governmental level which makes large scale VAT (value added tax) fraud possible. Horv\u00e1th has submitted a report to Hungary\u2019s Chief Prosecutor, backing his statement with documentary proof. He has been supported by major NGOs and his findings were underpinned by a study from Ernest and Young. He was at the European Parliament in February 2015 to present his case.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Monday in Luxembourg, the appeal of Antoine Deltour as well as his co-defendents Raphael Halet und Edouard Perrin will begin. 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