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\noindent
Axel Brandenburg (case number: \"O 12191-22)
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\section*{Clarifications regarding the allegation of Villa Europa}

In the following, I present evidence that
\begin{itemize}
\item[(i)]
I was invited to what appeared to be a genuine scientific meeting
(Figures 1--6 with emails of April and May 2020).
\item[(ii)]
The subsequent email conversation concerning copyright agreements
appeared to follow standard procedure and {\em did not involve
anything about payments} (Figures 2 and 4 with emails of
May 13, 2020, and May 7, respectively).
\item[(iii)]
A 63-page letter from ``Sad Arbitrazowy Lewiatan" of November 4, 2021,
appeared to draw a connection between my lecture of April 24, 2020 and
the copyright agreement with a claim that I agreed to a payment of 2785
euro (Figure 7 with a copy of a letter of November 2021).
\item[(iv)]
The authenticity and purpose of Villa Europa is questionable
(Figure 8 with a screenshot of December 2022 showing the alleged location
and the non-existence of the claimed website).
\item[(v)]
The letter from ``Sad Arbitrazowy Lewiatan" of November 4, 2021
also contained copies of a letter to my director, Niels Obers, who
has never seen this until now.
This appears to be fabrication of evidence (Figure 9).
\item[(vi)]
Villa Europa is not a trustworthy and credible organization; see the
attachments demonstrating parallel allegations and investigations against them
(pages 8--10).
\end{itemize}
A list of 13 witnesses is included.
It is followed by 7 additional names, including that of Professor Henrik
Hult from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, who is being accused of
similar charges.

\section{Preamble}

On April 8, 2020, I was contacted by ``Matteo (Matt) Ferensby" (on behalf
of the scientific committee) and asked to present a talk in the On-line
Symposium ``COVID-19 by the Numbers, Modes, Big Data, and Reality" on
what was then to be April 15 through 16, 2020. This person gave as his
address the University of Warsaw.

There is a question who ``Matteo (Matt) Ferensby" actually is.
He has no scientific record and was not present during the meeting that
finally took place on April 24.
There were 10 presentations on that day. I have been in touch with all
of those participants during November 2021. All presenters have in common
that they had papers on the arXiv, an online preprint platform; see below.

In hindsight, there is also doubt that the person ``Anne Adamchewsky",
who introduced herself as ``a secretary/office person to the COVID-19
colloquium" really exists.
(One of my witnesses, Marco Baiesi, who gave a talk on another day,
informed me on Nov 4, 2021 that this person uses the face of another person.)
``Anne Adamchewsky" emailed me on May 13, 2020 saying that ``I
forwarded to you via traditional postal service some paperwork to be
signed before (copyright, etc.\ issues)." (It is unclear what ``before"
refers to.) On May 24, 2020, she wrote ``The youtube.com service requires
us to clear the copyrights and publication issues, therefore please
return our paperwork as soon as possible." The URL of the recording was
given in that email and already publicly available at that time.

\section{Evidence of usual, non-commercial communication}

\begin{figure}[h!]\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=.49\columnwidth]{1}
\includegraphics[width=.49\columnwidth]{3}
\end{center}\caption[]{
Evidence of usual, non-commercial communication:
First contact on April 8, 2020.
Expression of interest.
Reference to scientific organizing committee
and University of Warsaw.
}\label{1}\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[h!]\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=.49\columnwidth]{4}
\includegraphics[width=.49\columnwidth]{5}
\end{center}\caption[]{
Evidence of usual, non-commercial communication:
request to sign copyright (May 8 and 13).
}\label{4}\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[h!]\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=.49\columnwidth]{6}
\includegraphics[width=.49\columnwidth]{7}
\end{center}\caption[]{
Evidence of usual, non-commercial communication:
youtube recording published on May 24 and confirmation of
receipt of documents.
}\label{6}\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[h!]\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=.8\columnwidth]{2}
\end{center}\caption[]{
Evidence of usual, non-commercial communication:
Conditions stated in their letter of May 7, 2020, mentioning ``free of charge"
under their first item 6.
}\label{2}\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[h!]\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=.58\columnwidth]{8}
\includegraphics[width=.40\columnwidth]{9}
\end{center}\caption[]{
Evidence of usual, non-commercial communication:
Follow-up emails of August 2020 about a second version of some documents.
}\label{8}\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[h!]\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=.64\columnwidth]{10}
\includegraphics[width=.34\columnwidth]{11}
\end{center}\caption[]{
Evidence of usual, non-commercial communication:
Schedule of the talks (left) and Youtube listings,
all freely available.
}\label{10}\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[h!]\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=.49\columnwidth]{14}
\includegraphics[width=.49\columnwidth]{15}
\end{center}\caption[]{
Evidence of fraud:
Excerpt of documents received in November 2021.
Villa Europa is mentioned here for the first time.
It contains documents that claim that I agreed
to a payment of 2785 euro.
The authenticity of these documents remains unclear.
}\label{12}\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[h!]\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=.49\columnwidth]{13}
\includegraphics[width=.49\columnwidth]{12}
\end{center}\caption[]{
Evidence of fraud:
Location of Villa Europa within University premises,
mentioning website that is not available.
(The University is not aware of this.)
}\label{12}\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[h!]\begin{center}
%\includegraphics[width=.49\columnwidth]{16}
\includegraphics[width=.49\columnwidth]{17}
\includegraphics[width=.49\columnwidth]{18}
\end{center}\caption[]{
Evidence of fraud:
%Follow-up email of January 19, 2022.
%The authenticity of the sender remains unclear.
Copies of a letter to my director, Niels Obers, dated April 2020,
but sent to me in November 2021.
Niels Obers has never seen this until now.
This appears to be fabrication of evidence.
}\label{12}\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[h!]\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{VE1}
\includegraphics[width=.8\columnwidth]{EE1}
\end{center}\caption[]{
Evidence of fraud:
Villa Europa operates with a hidden agenda;
the company is actually for building houses and renovations.
}\label{12}\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[h!]\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=1.07\columnwidth]{VE2}
\includegraphics[width=1.07\columnwidth]{EE2}
\end{center}\caption[]{
Evidence of fraud and a hidden agenda:
The company builds houses.
}\label{12}\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[h!]\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{VE3}
\includegraphics[width=.88\columnwidth]{EE3}
\end{center}\caption[]{
Evidence of fraud and a hidden agenda:
The purpose of the company is to sell cars and tires.
}\label{12}\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[h!]\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{VE4}
\includegraphics[width=1.03\columnwidth]{EE4}
\end{center}\caption[]{
Evidence of fraud and a hidden agenda:
Their field includes scientific activities (in yellow).
}\label{12}\end{figure}

I did sign the paperwork, but, because my institute (Nordita) moved
into another building, I didn't keep any copies. I can therefore not
confirm that it contained anything about any expense, which was never
mentioned anyway. But, according to a letter from ``Sad Arbitrazowy
Lewiatan" dated 28 October 2021 there is a 3-paged document with my
signature at the end where it says "All participants -- natural persons --
of the Debate April 24th, 2020 agree ... to furnish to the organizer a
net two thousand seven hundred eighty five euro to cover editorial work
and open access publication required for the debate proceedings." In
fact, reference to signed documents presented by ``Villa Europa" should
be taken with care. In the case of another participant, falsification
of signed documents has been reported.

In hindsight, there is no clear connection between who is meant by the
organizers, the names ``Matteo (Matt) Ferensby" and ``Anne Adamchewsky",
and ``Villa Europa" that is mentioned in the signed document.
This constitutes in my opinion intentional deception.

\begin{figure}[h!]\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{34}
\includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{35}
\end{center}\caption[]{
Parallels with other cases.
}\label{34}\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[h!]\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{32}
\includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{33}
\end{center}\caption[]{
Bin Jiang from G\"avle.
}\label{32}\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[h!]\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{31}
\end{center}\caption[]{
Threats to members of the scientific organizing committee.
}\label{31}\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[h!]\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{30}
\end{center}\caption[]{
Size of the community affected by the fraud.
}\label{30}\end{figure}

\section{Evidence of fraud:}

\begin{itemize}
\item
Email threads of April -- September 2020 all indicating
standard correspondence that is expected in connection with other online
meetings and the requests to publish recordings online. If the intent
was to request payment, this should have been mentioned.
This was not the case, so I regard the subsequent actions by ``Villa Europa''
as fraud.
\item
The document with my signature, which only mentions in {\em words}
``two thousand seven hundred eighty five euro" instead of ``2785.- euro".
The fact that this is hidden in a 3-page long document (if it is even real!)
is evidence of attempted deception.
In fact, all my lectures at other meetings were always given for free and
were never subject to any fees or payments.
\item
The statement ``All participants ... of the Debate ... agree ... to
furnish ..." is wrong. None of the other 9 speakers of that day have
agreed to or performed any payment, nor have the speakers of other days
paid them anything.
\item
Email correspondences showing that only scientists from the EU have
been approached for payment. None of them have paid anything. Yet the
recordings of all talks has been publicly available since April 2020 under
\url{https://www.youtube.com/@vvoip_theoretical_geograph821}.
\end{itemize}

Below the contact details of witness scientists involved in the conference
and the arXiv numbers of their papers presented at the meeting (my own
paper is: \url{https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.03638}).

\section{Witnesses:}

\begin{enumerate}\itemsep-0mm
\item
Victoria Lopez {\tt <vlopezlo@ucm.es>}, \url{https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.09874}.
%The comparison of trends in Spain and the Netherlands: a Dynamical compartment model of the transmission of Coronavirus
Has been approached by them, but has not reacted or paid anything.

\item
Alessio Muscillo {\tt <alessio.muscillo2@unisi.it>}, \url{https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.14239}.
%Covid19: unless one gets everyone to act, policies may be ineffective or even backfire
Has been approached by them, but has not reacted or paid anything.

\item
Ranga Rao Venkatesha Prasad {\tt <R.R.VenkateshaPrasad@tudelft.nl>}, \url{https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.11920}.
%A simple Stochastic SIR model for COVID 19 Infection Dynamics for Karnataka: Learning from Europe
Has {\em not} been approached. Has now moved to another institute.

\item
Ali Nasseri {\tt <ali.nasseri@gmail.com>}, \url{https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.13221}.
%Planning as Inference in Epidemiological Models 
Has {\em not} been approached.

\item
Anand Sahasranaman {\tt <anand.sahasranaman@krea.edu.in>}, \url{https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.09715}.
%Network structure of COVID-19 spread and the lacuna in India's testing strategy
[He and this email no longer seem to be active.]

\item
V.K. Jindal {\tt <vkjindal06@gmail.com>}, \url{https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.09912}.
%COVID 19, a realistic model for saturation, growth and decay of the India specific disease
Has {\em not} been approached.

\item
Sebastian Goncalves {\tt <sebastiangoncalves@gmail.com>}, \url{https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.09032}.
%Trend analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic in China and the rest of the world
Has {\em not} been approached.

\item
Josimar Edinson Chire Saire {\tt <jecs89@usp.br>}, \url{https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.11344}.
%Data Mining Approach to Analyze Covid19 Dataset of Brazilian Patients
Has {\em not} been approached.

\item
Marco Paggi {\tt <marco.paggi@imtlucca.it>}, \url{https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.08207}.
%Simulation of Covid-19 epidemic evolution: are compartmental models really predictive?
Has participated, but has not provided any feedback to me yet.

\item
Marco Baiesi {\tt <marco.baiesi@unipd.it>}, \url{https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.03416}.
%Modelling the deceleration of COVID-19 spreading
Has participated in another session by the same organizers.
His university identified falsifications in signed documents returned by Villa Europa.

\item
Francesco Piazza {\tt <Francesco.Piazza@cnrs-orleans.fr>}, \url{https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.06031}.
%Analysis and forecast of COVID-19 spreading in China, Italy and France
Has participated in another session by the same organizers and has been approached by
them, but has not reacted to any requests.

\item
Giada Adelfio {\tt <giada.adelfio@unipa.it>}, \url{https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.03712}.
%Spatial Bayesian Hierarchical Modelling with Integrated Nested Laplace Approximation
Has participated in another session by the same organizers and has been approached by
them, but has not reacted to any requests.

\item
Silvia Ullo {\tt <silvullo@unisannio.it>}, \url{https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.05808}.
%AIRSENSE-TO-ACT: A Concept Paper for COVID-19 Countermeasures based on
Artificial Intelligence algorithms and multi-sources Data Processing
Has participated in another session by the same organizers and has been approached by
them, but has not reacted to any requests.
\end{enumerate}

\noindent
The 13 people above can act as witnesses showing that the intention of the
organizers is predatory.

\section{Parallel accusations by and against Villa Europa}

A case similar to mine has been filed against
$$
\mbox{Professor Henrik Hult
{\tt <hult@kth.se>}, case number: \"O 11558-2.}
$$
He has been in touch with the following persons in his session,
which was in June 2020:
Martijn Hoogeveen (Delft University of Technology),
Benedetta Cerutti (IIT, Milan),
Francesco Piazza (University Firenze),
Marco Baiesi (Padova University),
Reyer Gerlagh (Tillburg University),
Konstantinos Gkiotsalitis (University of Twente),
Maziar Nekovee, Sussex University, and
Olivier Johnson, Bristol University.
\\

In the following 3 pages, I attach documents sent to me by Giada Adelfio
{\tt <giada.adelfio@unipa.it>} making accusations against Villa Europa.
They contain accusations of falsification and a police report.

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