Key legal question
Whether the annulment decision had to be set aside for alleged bias of the federal official handling the file
Extracted holding
No objectively recognizable appearance of bias was shown; the remark complained of reflected the case situation, not prejudice.
Extracted reasoning
At the time of the telephone exchange, the file already contained objective indicators of a possible fraud; the official's comment did not, on its own, evidence partiality under Article 29(1) Cst.