Vice-chairman LUMC resigns after fraud revelations | Economy

2023-11-11 17:48:22

The vice-chairman of the board of directors of the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) is temporarily resigning from his position. Pancras Hogendoorn does this following reporting from Broadcasting West in Follow the Moneywhich shows that he was aware of fraud with European research subsidies.

Broadcasting West in Follow the Money write on Saturday that Hogendoorn was informed at the end of 2021 that a hired company was committing fraud with European subsidies.

This concerns Percuros BV, a subsidy agency that LUMC used when applying for large international research projects. But research shows that the agency “consciously commits fraud to achieve personal financial gain.” This is apparently evident from conversations with former PhD students from the LUMC and a safety report from 2019 that the two media have in their possession.

A whistleblower sounded the alarm in the spring of 2022, following she had already had a conversation regarding this with Hogendoorn, among others, in December 2021. She was fired as a PhD candidate because she worked at the LUMC, but was officially employed by a Scandinavian company. Such a construction is once morest the rules. Nevertheless, the hospital did not inform subsidy provider REA.

After the fraud revelations, Hogendoorn decides to temporarily resign from his position. “He realizes that this image can hinder his functioning and can be harmful to the reputation of the LUMC, as long as this has not been objectively refuted,” a LUMC spokesperson responds.

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