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The founder of the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab, allegedly manipulated the organization’s research to express benefits with governments, reports the violators who led to his resignation as chairman of the organization on the Easter weekend.

The prosecution was one of the few, which was placed in a letter to a human rights activist sent to the WeF Board last week, which forced the organization to launch the investigation, and pushed Schwab to criticize his former colleagues for the reaction to the “Kalum” and “unjustified” charges without answering.

In a statement widespread on Wednesday, Schwab said he had been a victim of a “murder” and denied all claims against him, which also included allegations that he abused WeF and asked the staff to promote him for the Nobel Peace Prize.

An anonymous human rights activist claimed that Schwab had undermined the integrity of the WeF, manipulating his “Global Competitiveness Report”, which occupies countries due to their productivity and sustainability and creates the basis for discussions at the annual DAVOS meeting for world leaders and executives.

Schwab denied allegations that he had changed the methodology in the report after the governments’ approaches dissatisfied with his rating.

“I developed a methodology of competitiveness report originally in 1979 and remained its intellectual leader,” Schwab wrote on Wednesday. “For many years, I have continued to interact with the methodology to improve and maintain the authority of the report. This generates intense conceptual discussions.

“Some governments have turned to me, offering fixes to consider the updated data or correct the shortcomings in the analysis. I passed this information into the team. To build this as manipulation, is an insult to my academic position.”

New claims to violators go to the top other It was done last year, claiming that Schwab was running a toxic culture in the WEF workplace, where sexual harassment was not properly investigated, and black and women have experienced discrimination.

In March, reports WeF Sponsor That the investigation “did not find that the forum committed any legal violations” and “did not justify” allegations of violation of the rules against it.

Reported about Financial Times Previously this month The fact that Schwab told WEF that by January 2027 he would start the process of retreat as the chairman of the Board of Trustees, but the new claims had undermined the plan.

In a statement on Tuesday, WeF refused to comment in detail the latest allegations against Schwab until a new investigation was concluded, except that “while the forum is taken seriously, they emphasize that they remain unproven.”

Schwab denied allegations that he and his wife Hilda abused WeF resources, using the personal use of the organization’s properties, conducting its personal travel financing and asking the junior employees to “withdraw thousands of ATMs on his behalf.”

He called it a “pure lie” and said he had committed a lawsuit against his anonymous accusations.

In his statement, Schwab also replied to the statement that he used WeF staff to lobby the Nobel Peace Prize. “Contrary to what is hinting here, I repeatedly asked people who wanted me not to do it,” he said.

Schwab did not respond to a comment request.