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If European Media Refuses to Even Mention European Patent Office (EPO) Cocainegate, It'll Say More About European Media Than About EU Institutions Like EUIPO (and EPO)

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 26, 2025

Without the complicity of the media or the "Strange Conspiracy of Silence", much of the EPO corruption would not be possible. Benoît Battistelli would be ousted if not arrested pretty fast and he would not be able to plant his French mate António Campinos inside the EPO to carry on with the corruption and the cover-up.

Earlier this month we saw that the big publishers in Germany remain somewhat "complicit" in EPO corruption [1, 2]. Those that receive money to behave that way are in effect engaging in bribery, not journalism (we covered this in past years; the EPO does pay them). They refuse to talk about it and sometimes go out of their way to actively hide it (people later need to undo the censorship, unmasking perpetrators).

These days we're testing to see if Spanish press is any better; a lot of the corrupt officials come from Spain or work/ed in Spain. There's this blog that keeps repeating what we publish (selectively) in Spanish. That's probably better than nothing... for now:

We'll soon see how many self-described journalists in Spain have the courage to mention what happened to Luis Berenguer.

If there are no takers, we'll have something to report. █