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Giovanni Kessler was born on 11 June, 1956, is an Italian politician (born 1956). Discover Giovanni Kessler's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 67 years old?

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1924

Giovanni Kessler is the son of Bruno Kessler (1924–1991), a former President of the Autonomous Province of Trento and vice-minister to the Interior.

Kessler graduated in law at the University of Bologna.

1956

Giovanni Kessler (born 11 June 1956 in Trento) is an Italian prosecutor.

1985

In 1985, Kessler became a member of the Italian judiciary and served as prosecutor in the courts of Trento and then of Bolzano.

1995

From 1995 he worked for two years as anti-mafia prosecutor in Caltanissetta (Sicily) at the anti-mafia Directorate.

1998

From 1998 to 1999, Kessler was Deputy Head of the OSCE Kosovo Verification Mission in Pristina, in charge of Police and Justice matters.

As judicial expert, he also participated to several evaluation missions of the European Commission and Council of Europe in Eastern Europe.

2001

In 2001, Kessler was elected to the Italian Parliament as an independent member.

He sat on the Committee on Justice Affairs and during his five-year term, he authored numerous bills on the International Criminal Court (ICC), the European Convention against corruption, the International Judiciary Cooperation and the European Arrest Warrant.

In addition to his committee assignments, Kessler was also a member of the Italian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).

2003

From 2003 until 2006, he served as Vice-President of the Assembly.

He participated in and led International Election Monitoring missions in the United States and in many other OSCE countries.

In 2003, the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Dutch Foreign Minister Jaap De Hoop Scheffer, appointed Kessler as his Special Representative during that year's parliamentary election in Armenia.

2006

From 2006 to 2008, Kessler held the position of Italian High Commissioner to Combat Counterfeiting.

2008

In December 2008, Kessler was elected member, and subsequently President, of the Legislative Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Trento.

2009

In 2009 Kessler started with Dieter Steger (SVP) and Herwig van Staa (ÖVP), chairmen of the legislative assemblies of South Tyrol and Tyrol, the project of a Euroregion that, for the three territories, would represent a recovery of historical Tyrol.

The legislative assemblies of the autonomous provinces of Trentino and South Tyrol and Tyrol then unanimously approved the Euroregion Tyrol – South Tyrol – Trentino.

2010

In 2010, Kessler was nominated for the post of Director-General of OLAF, the Anti-Fraud office of the European Union.

In late 2010, the European Parliament voted narrowly to put Kessler ahead of Thierry Cretin, an OLAF director.

Later, the Council of the European Union decided that Kessler and Johan Denolf, from the anti-fraud unit of the Belgian judicial police, were their top two.

2011

He resigned from this position before taking up the post of Director-General of OLAF in early 2011.

Kessler took office in February 2011 and soon became engaged in a comprehensive reform process to strengthen the efficiency of OLAF, aiming to step-up the fight against fraud and corruption in Europe.

Upon taking office, Kessler led the investigation into the 2011 cash for influence scandal in the European Parliament.

During that time, OLAF was working closely with national authorities from Austria, Slovenia, Romania, Spain, Belgium and France; two MEPs – from Austria and Slovenia – resigned; a third was suspended by his party.

2012

In 2012, he was elected President of the European Partners Against Corruption / European Anti-Corruption Network (EPAC/EACN), a formal network comprising close to fifty anti-corruption authorities from European Union Member States.

The Network was set up to improve cooperation between authorities mandated with the fight against corruption in the European Union, as well as to foster closer relations between Member States and the European institutions.

From 2012, Kessler oversaw the investigation that led to John Dalli, the then European health commissioner, losing his job over accusations that he asked for cash from a tobacco company in exchange for opening up the EU market to that company’s products.

That investigation also ensnared Kessler, with Belgian authorities starting an investigation into allegations that he had broken the law during OLAF’s probe into Dalli.

The European Commission lifted his immunity, opening him up to prosecution, prompting Kessler to launch legal action.

2013

In 2013, he became a Member of the Executive Committee of the International Association of Anti-Corruption Authorities (IAACA).

IAACA has more than three hundred organizational members which cover nearly all law enforcement national institutions and bodies entrusted with the task of fighting against corruption and more than two thousand individual members, including prosecutors, investigators and experts with experience in anti-corruption research or practice.

2014

In his book "Hold up in Brussels, les lobbies au coeur de l'Europe" published in 2014, MEP José Bové told the story of how Giovanni Kessler, in connection with the then secretary general of the European Commission Catherine Day, covered what would later be proven to be false accusations of bribery which led to the resignation of Commissioner Dalli.

In 2014, Kessler became a member of the commission on appointment of the new bureau chief of the Ukrainian anti-Corruption Bureau.

2016

In march 2016, the Belgian prosecutor's office required 14 months in prison and a fine against him.

2017

He was until 2017 the Director-General of the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF).

OLAF is a department of the European Commission, but it is independent in its investigative function.

Based in Brussels, OLAF is tasked with protecting the financial interests of the European Union by investigating fraud, corruption and any other illegal activities.

It also investigates serious matters relating to the discharge of professional duties by members and staff of the EU institutions and it supports the EU institutions, in particular the European Commission, in the development and implementation of anti-fraud legislation and policies.

As of July 2017, both the Belgian investigation and the case about his immunity were ongoing.

They would later be dropped.