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Well, DG, it became a "genuine question" only when you found out that it could be genuinely answered. At the time you posed it you obviously flattered yourself that it was a rhetorical one. Moreover, if your suggestion that Ashley Mote was the sole example of corruption were true, this would merely confirm my criticism of Mr Appleby's original comment. As for the institutionalized quality of EU fraud, let me once again recommend van Buitenen - in particular chapter 4, "The Leonardo Affair".