Two members of new Euro team have crime records

A HUGE row has broken out over the new European Commission after it emerged two members have criminal convictions for financial irregularity, including the man responsible for anti-fraud.

French commissioner Jacques Barrot, who will head up the €1 billion EU Transport department, was found guilty in 2000 of diverting €3 million of state funds to his party’s coffers and was given an eight-month suspended sentence.

Estonian commissioner Siim Kallas was governor of his country’s central bank when $10m went missing. The lower courts found him not guilty of being involved but when it went to the supreme court they convicted him of a lesser charge of providing false information.