Eva Joly

Eva Joly, born as Gro Eva Farseth ( born December 5, 1943 in Grunerløkka, Oslo ) is a lawyer and a member of the European Parliament. She earned a reputation as a ruthless and incorruptible fighter against corruption, especially in France and Norway, but also internationally. The native Norwegian came at the age of 18 years as an au pair in Paris. There she married the son of her host family, Pascal Joly (deceased 2001). Two common children come from this marriage, daughter Caroline ( lawyer ) and the son Julien (architect).

In the 2009 European election on 7 June 2009, she was elected as a French deputy in the European Parliament. She was a candidate of the French Green Alliance (Europe Écologie ) with Daniel Cohn- Bendit in the constituency Ile de France. In the European Parliament, she was chairman of the Committee on Development.

In the French presidential election 2012, she is running for the party Europe Ecologie -Les Verts ( EELV ) and received approximately two percent of the vote in the first round ..

Background and career

After training as a secretary at the trade school in Oslo she studied at the University of Oslo with a minor in French. After her time as an au pair in Paris, she remained in France and worked as a secretary, in order to finance her law degree at night school. She married Pascal Joly, the son of her former host family, and took his family name. After completing her law degree at a university in Paris and a doctorate in public law, she worked in the legal department of a hospital in France. Later, she was a prosecutor in Orleans and Evry. For the French Ministry of Finance, she worked as a specialist for the state's reorganization of failing companies. After a period as a judge of a provincial court she was finally in 1990 top investigating judge at the Finance Ministry in the Palais de Justice in Paris.

Then she returned to her native Norway. In Oslo she worked since its commissioning in 2002 by the Minister of Justice Odd Einar Dørum as a consultant for the police and Ministry of Justice. During this time she was sent to Iceland to investigate the bank failures there.

Anti- Corruption Commission

Eva Joly was appointed in 2002 in Oslo with the formation of an Anti -Corruption Commission, which is appointed as the Special Commission for the fight against corruption, money laundering, economic crime and organized crime. The Commission's aim is also to promote international cooperation in the fight against corruption.

MEP

In the period 2009-2014 Joly was appointed chairman of the Development Committee.

She is a member of the Conference of Committee Chairs and the Delegation to the ACP -EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly. As a deputy she is in the Budgetary Control, the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and the special committee on organized crime, corruption and money laundering. She is also in the delegation for relations with the United States.

Elf Aquitaine Leuna

Despite intimidation, breaking into her home and the office, illegal wiretapping and death threats Eva Joly covered in the time of their activity as adjudicator at the major European corruption scandal in history. This went by the international press as Elf Aquitaine bribery affair. Initially, the adjudicator fell to only suspicious exchange transactions of the state-owned company Elf Aquitaine. These initial irregularities led between 1995 and 2002 to a multi-year investigation, at the end of the prosecution 37 accused were handed over. Among them most senior politicians and managers were. Overall, 30 of the first 37 defendants from the French and international top company were also convicted.

Former French Foreign Minister and Chairman of the Conseil Constitutionel of the French Constitutional Council, Roland Dumas, was one of the defendants. He was acquitted on appeal. Among other things, the president of the group, Le Floch - Prigent Loïk, and Alfred Sirven, the second man in the company were at the dock.

Overall, the Manager branched off € 300 million -won and important people in international politics.

Also in Germany the work of Eva Joly has hit big waves. Their investigations were taken up politically in Germany Leuna affair. About suspicions the affair in Germany, however, did not come out.

In her book, In the eye of the cyclone, she describes how she was the victim of intimidation and death threats by their investigations, and the reactions of the highest men in France on a woman who dares to ask those awkward questions that impunity in a " move " zone, as she calls it.

Quote from the Preface: " In no country, I welcome the translation of my book more than in Germany. Our investigation in the case Leuna revealed that Elf has paid more than 50 million marks to a middleman who used contacts to the Federal Intelligence Service. However, although the German justice " all the trumps " has - done is nothing. Not until today. "

Claude Chabrol's film Secret State affairs is inspired by the Elf Aquitaine case.

Works

  • Eva Joly: In the eye of the cyclone, ISBN 3-570-50051-9

Prizes and awards

  • 2002 Elected to the European of the Year by the magazine Reader's Digest
  • 2004 Honorary Doctor of the University of Bergen
  • 2004 Humanist award from the Association Human Etisk
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