Fabrice Leggeri under fire over agency’s human rights record and anti-fraud investigation
The head of the EU border agency Frontex has filed his resignation following excoriating criticism of its human rights record and an anti-fraud investigation.
Fabrice Leggeri, who was censured by the European parliament last year, announced his resignation in a letter to the agency’s management board. “I give my mandate back to the management board as it seems that the Frontex mandate on which I have been elected and renewed in June 2019 has silently but effectively been changed,” Leggeri wrote in a letter seen by the Guardian.
