In the Netherlands, a successful partner of EY (one of the top performers) was dismissed on the grounds that his performance was not good (contrary to the truth) when he reported that EY was violating EU competition law and that he had been intimidated by the manager who violated the competition law. The report has been swept under the carpet and the focus has shifted to discussions about the person of the whistleblower (“we didn’t consider it as a report because the partner did’t want to be a whistleblower”) and to the reporting procedure. The partner is not allowed by EY to go to the public court and, according to EY, must go to the arbitration institute, because of EY's reliance on the arbitration clause. Public judges (in the Netherlands there is no statutory independent ad random allocation of court cases; cases can be assigned to ‘friends’ such as lawyers who also work as part-time judge) refuse to assess the case because of arbitration clause and also refuse to ask preliminary questions to the European Court about, among other things, the protection of the lawyer (‘facilitator’ in EU whistleblower directive) of a whistleblower (one of the lawyers has received disciplinary complaints from EY with which they try to suspend her; the other lawyer is me) and about the applicability of mandatory arbitration now that an arbitrage procedure is very expensive, is behind closed doors (secret) and ‘friends’ of EY executives and its lawyers do have a relation with this arbitration institution. The fact that the partner is a whistleblower is not taken into account by the judges. The worrying thing is that EY itself also indicates that it has not done anything with the report of the violation of competition law. An “independent” law firm (which already did assignments for EY) was hired to investigate the whistleblower’s report (our client was never allowed to see the full findings of this investigation) and it was dismissed as a labor dispute. Kill the messenger and bury it with the abuses. Recently, as a lawyer (and also a whistleblower myself in a major collateral fraud in which EY is also involved and which reports have been ignored by the @AutoriteitFM since 2014), I have submitted a request to the @EU_Commission Commission to start infringement proceedings for incomplete implementation/execution of the whistleblower directive (or rather, to 'continue' the infringement procedure from 2022 now that it is unclear what happened to that infringement procedure against the Netherlands). quotenet.nl/zakelijk/zuidas/…

Ik fok paarden…. Hoe zullen úw gegevens door @GemeenteHsum / Wijdemeren worden verwerkt ?? Stem lijst 17, voor minder overheid 🐴