Münchner Merkur, "Wie bei der FIFA oder in China - Europäisches Patentamt: Beschäftigte bespitzelt"
"[E]mployees were tracked with spy software. Patent attorneys and members of the Administrative Council may also have been affected. [...]The goings-on inside the EPO nowadays resemble what was previously thought to only occur in China or at the FIFA.[...] As a result of the surveillance a member of EPO Boards of Appeal was suspended because he is alleged to have disseminated defamatory statementsabout the Office and its managers. [...] Meanwhile, it remains unclear whether or not the suspended EPO staff member was really guilty of defamation or whether he was merely stating the truth. His remarks reportedly referred to the EPO Vice-President, Zeljko Topic, and included allegations of corruption relating to his time at the Croatian Patent Office."
A similar article was published in the Badische Zeitung.A translation in English can be found by scrolling through the document.