Prosecutor determined against Goettingen University employees.

The Academe state research funds will be used improperly and partially which it has. Because of these allegations now determined the prosecutor. The authority looks after a first report of the DFG fraud suspicion.

 

In the affair of serious irregularities in million grant applications at the University of Göttingen now determined the prosecutor. Because of the suspicion of the attempted fraud and embezzlement is employee of the university against a formal procedure has been initiated, informed a spokesman of the Göttinger investigative authority.

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Academe: Prosecutor determined against employees

Cause of the investigation was an initial investigation report by the German Research Foundation (DFG), which had been. It follows an initial suspicion against the scientists, said home gardeners. The prosecutor expects more reports of the DFG. Details of the allegations and the relevant researchers wanted the speaker does not mention.

The DFG has reviewed a quarter, as it happened, that scientists at the University of the resources of the research community is not properly used. In early May, the University of Göttingen to a report from the blogs
massively in the criticisms. The news magazine has learned that funding from the DFG in the Sonderforschungsbereich 552 "border zone of stability of tropical rain forests in Indonesia" have been deliberately misrepresented: In September 2007, the university Kassensturz before and noted that 150,000 euros were left to the DFG had returned must. According to information blogs were simply several employees from other fields on the payroll of the tropics Researchers set.

In addition, 16 scientists from the same area in a grant application to the DFG false information about publications, and partly invented Publications.

In addition to DFG and the prosecutor's office is also the University itself, the allegations enlighten. University President Kurt von Figura had before the Science Committee of the Lower Saxony parliament announced that he wanted to examine the misconduct of researchers in relation to publications made in the first half concluded. Then, should the use of research funds to be reviewed.

It is unclear so far whether and, if so, how deeply the university administration in the DFG is entangled affair. At a meeting of the head of the finance department with a staff member of the Collaborative Research Center was established in November 2007, according to a memo argued that the future president of Figura "no irregularities let them" be. At the same time but was "willing to finance department, the CRC word and deed to stand, even what 'creative resources' concerns, because the tax is interested, no money to the DFG need to give back."

This confronts said Uni-President of Figura: "The false impression is characterized by a reckless wording emerged that an employee of the CRC in a note about a call made."
He rejected opposite ONLINE blogs also, however, that he or the university "any irregularities could go through." It had at no time "tricks at the expense of DFG" where.

The President of the University of Göttingen announced meanwhile, also working legally proceed against employees who want to where during the test, evidence of misconduct arise.