AD to Timmermans: letter Ana Gomes + two open letters (Traffickers, Congo)

Publication date: 2 December 2016

From: Arun Dohle [mailto:arundohle@gmail.com]

Sent: Freitag, 2. Dezember 2016 15:14

To: frans.timmermans@ec.europa.eu

Subject: Re: Open Letter

Dear First Vice-President Frans Timmermans.

We briefly spoke on 1 December 2016 at the 10th European Forum on the Rights of the Child.

I am left flabbergasted by your statement that you don't know the letter of MEP Ana Gomes about the situation of EU civil servant Mrs. Roelie Post.

And even more by your statement not to be aware of "the issue".

Hereby I resend the two mails I sent to the College.

Please let me know which actions are being taken to reverse the pro-adoption U-turn made under the Barroso I and II Commission, and how the European Commission will deal with the untenable situation of Mrs. Post.

I keep myself available for further information.

Please watch THE TRAFFICKERS, in which Mrs. Post speaks out.

http://fusion.net/video/366386/traffickers-international-adoption-episode/

and this article here about criminal investigations in Belgium.

Four raids in investigation into trade in Congolese orphans:

http://www.againstchildtrafficking.org/2016/12/four-raids-in-investigation-into-trade-in-congolese-orphans/

Yours sincerely,

Arun Dohle

www.againstchildtrafficking.org

From: Arun Dohle [mailto:arundohle@gmail.com]

Sent: Donnerstag, 16. Juni 2016 14:58

To: president.juncker@ec.europa.eu; federica.mogherini@ec.europa.eu; frans-timmermans-contact@ec.europa.eu; cab-georgieva-webpage@ec.europa.eu; cab-ansip-web@ec.europa.eu; cab-sefcovic-web@ec.europa.eu; cab-dombrovskis-contact@ec.europa.eu; jyrki-katainen-contact@ec.europa.eu; guenther-oettinger-contact@ec.europa.eu; cab-hahn-contacts@ec.europa.eu; cecilia-malmstrom-contact@ec.europa.eu; cab-mimica-webpage@ec.europa.eu; cab-arias-canete-archives@ec.europa.eu; cab-karmenu-vella-contact@ec.europa.eu; cab-andriukaitis-webpage@ec.europa.eu; dimitris.avramopoulos@ec.europa.eu; cab-thyssen@ec.europa.eu; cab-moscovici-webpage@ec.europa.eu; christos.stylianides@ec.europa.eu; phil.hogan@ec.europa.eu; cab-hill-contact@ec.europa.eu; Violeta.Bulc@ec.europa.eu; elzbieta.bienkowska@ec.europa.eu; vera-jourova-contact@ec.europa.eu; cab-navracsics-contact@ec.europa.eu; corina-cretu-contact@ec.europa.eu; margrethe-vestager-contact@ec.europa.eu; cab-moedas-contact@ec.europa.eu

Subject: RE: Open Letter

Dear Members of the European Commission,

On 16.05.2016 I sent all members of the European Commission an open letter about the situation of the whistle-blower Mrs. Roelie Post.

Within a week I received an email from the assistant of the Commission’s Mediator informing me that the Mediator’s office would contact Mrs. Post. I then called him and informed him that Mrs. Post has no access to her Commission email and that’s she is living in hiding. I suggested him to contact either the Medical Service or DG NEAR, as both have her private email address.

Few days back, I asked my former colleague Mrs. Post whether she was contacted by the Mediator. Her reply was: “no”.

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In my letter I indeed asked for a solution of a personnel matter. But, I also informed you about the broader issue: the way children’s rights were dealt with by the previous Commissions. That needs to be repaired.

I wrote to you as a matter of last resort and sincerely expect the College to deal with the issue and not the Commission services.

The Secretary General organised the secondment of Mrs Post to ACT. The Mediation Service is situated within the Secretariat General. On top of that, the Deputy Secretary General was responsible for DG JUST during the time when the irregularities took place (Director and acting Director General). So there is a double conflict of interest.

The below video is just one of the many examples of the proof we have: here in this video from the EP Petition meeting in 2011. It is clear that DG JUST acted as advocate for the “lobby”:

https://youtu.be/jexzBrBZoko

Children´s rights are a technical issue. However the issue has been politicised by the European institutions, leading now to this situation for Mrs. Post. The two issues are inseparably linked.

It is not just a “personnel matter”, which can be thrown back to the lowest levels of the Commission services.

Please confirm receipt of this mail individually. I take note that I did not get any confirmation of receipt for my first email, apart from an automatic reply of the Cabinet Hahn.

Yours sincerely,

Arun Dohle

From: Arun Dohle [mailto:arundohle@gmail.com]

Sent: Montag, 16. Mai 2016 18:39

Subject: Open Letter

Dear Members of the European Commission,

I am writing to you all as a matter of last resort.

Simon Mordue, as Member of Cabinet of VP Verheugen, and the former Secretary General of the European Commission, Catherine Day, arranged in 2007/2009 that Mrs. Roelie Post should “in the interest of the service” be seconded to an NGO which she had to set up herself (respective documents, correspondence etc. can be provided on request). I work for this NGO – Foundation Against Child Trafficking (ACT) since then.

Since two years I have been trying to get an appointment with Simon Mordue, director at DG NEAR, to discuss this secondment, as well as children’s rights.

The refusal of Mr. Mordue to meet with me, or communicate in any manner, is non-acceptable, but exemplary for how the Commission treated and treats one of its staff members.

When Mrs. Post received the attached allegedly private email, she was working for ACT, seconded by the Commission in the interest of the service, and thus naturally shared this email with me, her colleague. Content wise the email is certainly not private, but clearly work related.

The message given by Mr. Mordue “Message of boss [VP Verheugen] to you is keep fighting.”, is one of the many messages we received and which kept us indeed fighting rather successfully against a “European Adoption Policy” (now re-emerging under the name “cross border adoptions”.

Apart from being of motivational character, this message is an acknowledgement of something going seriously wrong inside the EU Commission.

The message was about a press article which detailed corruption in the Commission related to pressure to reopen adoptions from Romania. This pressure is till today ongoing.

Today the EU Commission doesn´t even acknowledge that there was and is an issue. Her secondment ended in August 2014 and her reintegration into DG NEAR went fully wrong. Side-lined, mobbed. Forcing the whistleblower Mrs Roelie Post into invalidity on psychiatric grounds (paranoia) just like in 2007, under threat of 100 percent cutting of her salary.

I herewith kindly request you to find a solution for Mrs. Post, so that she can get out of the service after 33 years, without literally landing up under the bridge, or worse…

One possible solution is that you grant her leave in the interest of the service under Art. 42c of the staff regulations.

It is crystal clear by now, that the EU Commission did not want her back inside.

Kindly acknowledge receipt of my email individually, and inform me timely about the actions taken.

I am at your disposal if you require further information.

Yours sincerely,

Arun Dohle

www.againstchildtrafficking.org

Countries: Democratic Republic of The Congo