The EU’s anti-fraud office has opened an investigation into former European commissioner Neelie Kroes, who was accused of breaking ethics rules after leaked documents suggested she secretly helped Uber lobby the Dutch government.
Kroes, a Dutch former vice-president of the European Commission, was a key figure in the Uber files, a cache of company documents leaked to the Guardian and shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. The documents appeared to show that Kroes, the EU’s top official on internet policy from 2010 to 2014, had offered to arrange a series of meetings for Uber with EU staff and Dutch politicians after she left office, despite restrictions during an 18-month cooling-off period.
