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1.0 Professional Expertise of The Author
I am writing this document as a former Head of Security and of Computer Audit functions for seven years.
While I was Management Information Services Manager at one of Dresser UK ‘s operating units I was
responsible for all computer related activities within the company. This included being security officer on the
mainframe and mid-range systems. I was responsible for the physical security and the backup and disaster
recovery systems. I negotiated equipment leases and agreements with external suppliers and understand
the processes involved.
I worked for the Royal Armament Research and Development establishment at Fort Halstead a part of a
team of mathematical consultants for scientists and engineers. One of our many and varied tasks was to
professionally evaluate intelligence material and home office evidence for validity. I was taught the principles
of how to do this and fully learned the techniques by doing it with the rest of the team. We were very efficient
and effective.
I have never worked for any Intelligence Agency, but my father worked for GCHQ, who analyse intelligence
information. All our family friends were from the intelligence community and I spent around twenty five years
immersed in this environment. So naturally I have a good understanding of how intelligence services
operate.
I have worked, for ten years, as an independent Computer Consultant in Banking, Insurance and Pension
Fund Management for companies that were world leaders in their industry sector.
The point I am making is that I am professionally qualified to make the observations and judgements that I
make in this document. I would expect any honest and rational person with the same knowledge and
expertise to make very similar deductions.
1.1 Disclosure of Information
Most of the information in this document is in the public arena and can be verified independently by the
reader. Information essential to the reader obtaining a clear view of criminal acts has also been included that
some people might like to claim as being confidential. This is not the case. Take note, that failure to report
criminal acts as serious as the ones described here is a criminal act itself. To attempt to stifle reporting of
criminal acts such as those described within this document by legal means is “Perverting The Course of
Justice” and is also a criminal act as well as contravening the “Declaration of Human Rights” regarding the
freedom of speech.
1.2 Role of The Author
The author is reporting a serious crime that he is certain is currently in progress and will cause a lot of hurt
and damage to employees of the EPO , European Industry and members of the public who are potential
targets of terrorist attack. It is my role to highlight what is happening in the real world in order that the
appropriate authorities can bring those responsible to justice.
1.3 Role of The Police
It is the role of the Police to find evidence, to determine and substantiate the events in the real world and to
protect the public by bringing the wrongdoers to justice.
1.4 Scale of This Case
It is fair to say that this case is “The Holy Grail of Police Work”. When this case is brought to a successful
conclusion it will not only assure the well earned future of many pensioners and benefit European Industry as
a whole, but it should reduce many other crimes that are not obviously related. Please read the attached
notes fully and reflect on the consequences to get my full meaning here. Like the Holy Grail, it will mean
“Immortality” for the Policeman / Policewoman that solves this case and brings it to a successful conclusion
but the “Kiss of Death” to those timid souls who fail.
The question you have to ask yourself, is the Grail Question: “Whom do I serve ?”
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2.0 Financial Risk presented By Fidelity Investments
The details of the financial risk were uncovered during a series of emails between myself and members of
the Security and Audit team. Full details are in the attached appendix.
2.1 FACT 1 – Notification of Risk
First I sent an email to Security and Audit team members giving the details of how untraceable and unaudited
account balance adjustments of very large sums of money were performed in the UK office of
Fidelity Investments in 2002. The person who performed these account balance changes, believed that they
were illegal account transfers and this led to him terminating his contract with Fidelity because he did not
want to participate in what he believed were criminal activities. I was naturally a bit sceptical at first but when
he told me all the details surrounding these “account adjustments” I was certain that he was correct in his
deductions.
I had been hoping that Fidelity would not get the EPO pension contract, as then, I would not have to notify
them about this risk. When Fidelity did get the contract I felt that it was my duty to inform them of the financial
risk. It would have been negligent of me not to do so.
2.2 FACT 2 – Fraudulent Account Transfer Technique
Fidelity Investments perform illegal untraceable balance changes in 2002 in London. These unaudited
balance changes were typically for seven figure pound sterling values.
2.3 FACT 3 – Illegal Payments to Iran Accounts
David Van Duyn, a compliance Lawyer who was responsible for validating Fidelity Investments anti-money
laundering practices in Boston 2005/2006 accuses Fidelity of deliberately switching off anti-money
laundering software once it detected illegal money transfers to accounts in Iran. Van Duyn states that he
was expected to illegally falsify his anti-money laundering report to hide the detected illegal transfers.
2.4 FACT 4 – Al Qaeda is financed via Iran
Analysts from GCHQ have stated that Al Qaeda and most other Middle East Terrorist groups are financed
from Iran. They were never financed from Iraq, as was wrongly asserted by politicians who disregarded the
correct intelligence information given to them by GCHQ and the NSA.
2.5 FACT 5 – Fidelity Investments habitually acquires business deals illegally
The SEC found Fidelity Investments guilty of serious malpractice. Senior long serving board members of
Fidelity along with many other Fidelity account managers were in the habit of accepting lavish gifts from
Brokers, who later gained accounts. Malpractice was basically company policy.
The long list of expensive gifts accepted over many years that are detailed in the SEC documents are
shocking and were valued at $1.3 million. The best example was of a Bachelor party that cost $160,000 and
included drugs, prostitutes and dwarf tossing. It is worth reading this report, just to get the flavour of what
was going on.
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The SEC demanded that Fidelity Investments paid $50 million compensation for losses made by customers
as a result of this illegal trading.
The SEC report states that these illegal deals were effectively company policy and it demonstrates that these
deals adversely affected the performance of the funds managed by Fidelity. The Attorney report has been
censored in part, but the meaning is very clear.
Senior people involved included:
Scott E. DeSano, Fidelity's former Senior Vice President and head of Global
Equity Trading.
Bart A. Grenier, a Senior Vice President who held supervisory responsibility for
Fidelity's equity trading desk and other business groups.
Peter Lynch, Fidelity's Trustee, Vice Chairman and former Portfolio Manager
of Fidelity's flagship Magellan Fund
SEC States Fraud Standard Company Policy
(1) The illegal account balance changes made by my colleague in 2001 / 2002 were performed at the UK
offices of Fidelity Investments. Van Duyn accused the Boston Office of Fidelity Investments of switching off
their money laundering software, when illegal money transfers were detected in Iran. The method of illegal
account transfer used in the UK would be detectable by money anti-laundering software between accounts
that had regular payments being illegally transferred.
So the conclusion is that fraud was company wide and policy at highest level and not just isolated incidents
perpetrated by individuals. The London fraud was conducted in 2001 / 2002 and the fraud detected in Boston
occurred in 2005 /2006. So this took place over a considerable period of time and many Fidelity personnel
must have been a party to what was taking place.
From these two events alone I would estimate the probability of continued fraudulent policy > 95%
Fraud Perpetrators Retained
(2)The SEC states in their documents that many high level personnel including board level Senior Vice
Presidents were habitually engaged in fraudulent business deals over an extended time period. So we can
be certain that fraudulent trading was company policy until at least 2006. Obviously much of the personnel
will have remained the same since 2006. Indeed one of the high level fraudsters Peter Lynch has been
retained by Fidelity. So it would be unrealistic to expect the company to have changed
Additional Frauds at Fidelity
(3)Then there are the Annuity Fraud cases and the Military Pension scheme fraud. And this is just what they
have been caught doing, which is the tip of the iceberg.
2.6 FACT 6 - The EPO union SUEPO accused higher management of engaging fraudulent
Pension Advisers
The union, SUEPO, accused higher management of hiring a fraudulent company “Mercer” as advisers to
decide on the new externally managed pension scheme. They also accused higher management of falsifying
the accounts in order to justify cost cutting measures , such as the new Pension scheme. Management
eventually had to admit they had used erroneous accounting methods in their justification. They were not
aware of Fidelities iniquities.
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2.7 FACT 7 – The union SUEPO declared that the president Alison Brimelow had prior personal
contact with fraudsters related to Mercer.
In the accusation of fraudulent dealings regarding the Pension Scheme and President Alison Brimelow they
noted that Mercer had a relationship with a former superior of Brimelow at the Department of Trade and
industry in the UK, and that he had been found guilty of fraud.
Management threatened the union with legal proceedings if they would not retract this accusation, or if they
made it public.
2.7 FACT 8 – Higher management accepted their chosen pension advisers had been engaged in
fraud
Higher management stated that although Mercer had been found to act fraudulently, it did not matter
because the money was managed by Fidelity Investments an independent company. This was the trigger
that caused me to send my initial email as I knew that Fidelity Investments also used fraudulent accounting
practices as outlined by my colleague at the Royal Bank of Scotland.
2.8 FACT 9 – The pension scheme change was hastily made and violated proper internal
procedures
The union wanted to defer the decision on privatising the pension scheme because the advisers had been
found guilty of pension fraud and because the correct accounting figures, showed that there really was no
need for urgency. They pointed out that since there was an economic meltdown in the USA, to put the
money with a US finance company was pure insanity. Higher management acted outside of proper operating
procedures and forced the change through in a very high handed and hasty manner. There was no proper
consultation or debate, when the policy change was made.
2.9 Conclusion 1 – Higher management deliberately chose Pension Fund Managers and Advisers
that were known by them to have recently acted fraudulently
The high handed behaviour of EPO higher management was surprising and puzzling as they are definitely
intelligent people, but they appeared to act in an irrational manner. It is just plain stupid to hand over 15
Billion Euros to people that have very recently been found guilty of fraud. They could have chosen an honest
European fund manager. In fact it is irresponsibly reckless to hand over a large sum of European
government money to American investors, especially at a time on economic meltdown in the USA.
The decision to hand 15 Billion Euros over to an American Fund Management, recently found guilty of
numerous frauds at a time of economic meltdown in the USA is, in my opinion, a clearly case of
“Negligence” , most probably “Criminal Negligence”.
In my opinion, the most likely cause of this crazy decision is that some influential person in higher
management must have a personal incentive which outweighs their duty to act in the interest of the EPO.
Others have gone along with it from either a misplaced sense of allegiance or from being dim-witted.
2.10 FACT 10 – EPO management had a free choice, it should have been a simple matter to
choose a Pension Adviser company and a Fund Management Company that had not been recently
guilty of fraud.
To choose an honest European Pension Scheme Fund Manager is an obvious option, that makes economic
sense to the EU and the EPO as it reinvests the money into European industry and in that way stimulates the
need for EPO patents. Also the European economy is not adsorbing so much money to pay off financially
generated debts as the US economy.
3.0 FACT11 – Robert Gates ex head of the CIA joined the board of Fidelity Investments Trustees
in 1997
Robert Gates joined Fidelity on the board of Trustees in 1997, in December 2005 he was elected chairman
of the board of trustees and stayed until the SEC hearings were underway in 2006. He worked closely with
Peter Lynch, found guilty of fraudulent trading by the SEC. The SEC report states that fraudulent trading was
standard practise at Fidelity at this time.
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3.1 FACT 12 – Where Robert Gates goes a big black cloud of fraud, illegal deals, drugs and false
statements follows him.
Three CIA officials opposed his appointment to CIA director in 1991, because it was well documented that he
had falsified intelligence reports and this had led to a prolonging of the cold war.
He was implicated in the Iran-Contra affair, in which illegal arms deals were made to Iran that financed the
drug dealing Contras in Nicaragua. The CIA were complicit in the drug dealing. Proof of his involvement
arrived after the investigation had been closed.
He joined Texas A&M University as dean in 1991 and was elected to President of Texas A&M University in
2002. Texas A&M are involved in many defence research contracts, including biological warfare research
and cloning. They are under investigation for accidental deaths of researchers in the biological warfare lab.
He was also a board member of SAIC, which is also defence related research development company that
developed wire tapping and internet interception systems for the US government.
Many US Government defence contracts were awarded to companies on which he was a board member
and when he was made Secretary of Defence he had to resign these posts as there was a clear conflict of
interest. ( A bit like closing the stable door after the horse has bolted. )
Gates was involved in the original working party for post war Iraq. The fraudulent practices of US
Government contractors in Iraq are breathtaking in scale and brazenness. One government contractor
company was paid $1.2 Billion without even raising an Invoice, let alone any supporting accounts to back up
the payment claim. This has caused a justifiable outcry in the US.
3.2 FACT 13 – Somebody deleted a German language article published on the EPO website that
stated that the US Patent Industry was a key part of the US design for remaining a Superpower.
The German article was just one in a long flow of internal news of interest to Patent examiners. Since it was
in German I did not manage to read much of the content. When I went back to run it through a translator, it
had been deleted.
At first I thought it had been archived, but I could not find it in the archive. I had sent a link to a colleague
with the headline , date and URL. There were articles in the archive that were before and after the item in
question which was missing. So it was definitely deleted.
This, in my opinion, was a huge blunder by whoever deleted it. Such an article should have been viewed as
completely harmless and as a boost to the pretty low morale of the EPO.
The fact that it was deleted is a clear indication that it was seen as having the potential to reveal the true
situation regarding the EPO pension scheme and US agency intervention. It must have been true to get
such a strong reaction and the danger of people putting one and one together to make two was measured
as too great a risk.
Up until this time I had been puzzling over why the CIA would target the EPO and here was the motive.
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3.3 Conclusion 2 – Fidelity Investments is a “Front” company for the CIA
The fact that Robert Gates ( always desiring more power ) was involved in Fidelity for such a long period of
time and while it was involved in illegal dealing including payments to Iran means that Fidelity Investments is
a “Front” company for the CIA.
This means that Fidelity will do what the CIA wants and funds some of their illegal operations, such as the
payments to terrorists in Iran. The funding could be provided by defrauding the normal customers in various
different ways including the method that I outlined in FACT1.
3.4 Conclusion 3 – The CIA has targeted the EPO through Fidelity Investments in order to
guarantee US Patent Superiority
Higher management used the EPO Intranet to spread false accounting details to justify pension privatisation
and spread fear and doubt about the future of the EPO. They used a very high handed approach and
deliberately provoked the union into industrial action. The whole effect of this has been to reduce the
efficiency of the EPO in performing its job in producing patents that further the industrial interests of the
European Union.
“Coincidentally” the techniques used match almost precisely with those described in the CIA PSYOPS
document, that was released under the Freedom of Information act ( see attached : info document).
3.5 Risk 1 - Fidelity / CIA can generate Discord at will within the EPO
At some future point in time a major discord within the EPO can be caused by causing the Pension Scheme
to fail badly, thus causing serious hurt to employees and then blaming a certain sector of EPO treaty
members for the failure, including the UK. This will create a lot of acrimonious infighting which could result in
the end of the EPO.
3.6 Risk 2 – Fidelity / CIA get Financial leverage on Employees
They will be able to get a financial profile on all the people employed by the EPO, together with some
personal details that are used for risk evaluation. This could be used to determine which employees may be
susceptible to exchanging “favours” for cash incentives. Key industrial patents can have a very considerable
earnings generated value measured in tens of billions and obviously have strategic value for European
industry.
4.0 FACT 14 – The Head of Security and Audit at the EPO discussed “Worries and Desires”
regarding EPO security to US consultants Gartner.
The head of Security and Audit attended a meeting of security professionals in a castle near Paris. There a
group of security representatives from the EPO and “Oil Companies” meet in a “secure” environment, where
they can “discuss their personal fears and desires regarding their companies security needs”. ( Paraphrased
quote ) .
Having been raised in the intelligence community I was profoundly shocked when this little gem was
mentioned. “Personal fears and desires” are exactly what the opposition needs to know if they are going to
manipulate you into actions that fit their wishes not yours. Since the Oil Companies are involved and Oil
figures so highly in US political thinking I thought it is almost certain that this job would have been performed
by another CIA front company. So I guessed Gartner is a US firm? Yes. No surprise there.
4.1 FACT 15 – The Head of Security and Audit at the EPO had an abrupt attitude change after the
Gartner conference.
I got on well with my direct boss at the EPO, the one I did my work for. My department head tended to avoid
any interaction when we passed in the corridor.
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This behaviour changed dramatically after he went to the Gartner conference. He stopped ignoring me and
actually engaged me in conversation and became quite friendly. At the same time I was made aware that he
was seeking to replace me from discussions with people in two unrelated areas. One person, who I had
confided in, told me that he had heard from a completely unrelated manager about the Notification of Risk I
had made and that I was going because I had caused an upset.
4.2 FACT 16 – The Head of Security and Audit flatly refused to engage in any discussion
regarding my Notification Of Risk emails and the corresponding replies
I had written the “Notification of Risk” email shortly before the Gartner security conference. I got a terse email
telling me not to pursue it any further. After some time realising that the situation was deteriorating and on
advice from a colleague outside the department, I asked for a heart to heart discussion to discuss the matter
in another email. I stressed that this was an important matter that transcended petty internal politics of the
EPO. I received no reply. I thought that this was very strange behaviour, it does not match normal corporate
management behaviour.
4.3 FACT 17 – The Head of Security and Audit sent me an “Inappropriate Email” notice
The Trainer in the EPO gym lost his job because of some technicality. He needed to fill in a certain form
which showed he had many customers but he only put the EPO as one customer. He was a popular person
in the fitness club and the club members thought he had been treated badly. I along with about forty other
club members sent a supportive email and in my mail apart from wishing everyone a Happy New Year I
suggested that perhaps the club should use a different lawyer more capable of resolving the form filling
problem.
I was astonished to receive an inappropriate email notice from the Head of Security and Audit. Firstly
because it was circulated within the social club members only and secondly because my remarks were
sensible. My boss discussed the matter in the corridor and was very friendly, and agreed with most of my
sentiments. He said it was unwise to circulate an email that was critical of a lawyer and hence the notice. I
discovered then that the lawyer was not privately retained by the fitness club but was an EPO employee. I
wondered what the real motive was behind this notice.
4.4 Weak Hypothesis – Trying to Establish a false Motive
It is an odd coincidence that Van Duyn was accused of “Inappropriate Emails” prior to his departure from
Fidelity Investments and after his accusations of illegal declarations regarding money laundering. I don't
really understand the thinking behind this strategy, if that's what it is. One departmental colleague seems to
regard such acts as reducing the validity of Van Duyn's position, whereas I see is as a transparent and
somewhat desperate attempt to throw mud that actually helps to substantiate the case.
4.5 FACT 18 - Parted the EPO under Pleasant Circumstances
Perhaps the warning was just to make me shut up. In which case, it worked. I had been aware that like “Blind
Pugh” I had been given “The Black Spot”. I felt that associating with friends at work could be hazardous to
their career path. As I didn't want to cause problems to others I fell silent about this topic, particularly with my
colleagues in my department. They likewise, said nothing more on the subject.
We had a nice formal departmental breakfast ceremony, where our department head presented me with a
gift token and a card from my departmental colleagues with many wishes for the best in the future. This was
unexpected and very pleasant. Of course it makes it much more difficult for me to relate the observations
that I mentioned above.
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5.0 Final Conclusion
A serious crime of large scale International Fraud is in progress at the European Patent Office.
name of wistle blower known to Alfred Vierling and dutch police
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More specific correspondance has also been handed over to dutch police:
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