THAILAND RESEARCH INSTITUTE FORGERY CASE ECJ FRANCE EUROPEAN COMMISSION
January 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A THAILAND research agency has lost a long legal battle to force the European Commission to act against a French academic it claims duped them out of a Brussels grant. The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), of Pathumthani, a non-profit-making technological and research agency, failed to persuade the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to declare invalid a Euro 27,481 payment made in 2002. It has also launched a forgery case in Paris, France, against Thierry Lefèvre, Director of the Thailand-based Centre for Energy Environment Resources ...
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