DALLI RESIGNATION SPARKS WIRE-TAP ROW AT EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
March 8th, 2013
EUROPEAN Union (EU) anti-fraud agency OLAF has denied it used illegal wire taps to collect evidence in the case of former EU health Commissioner John Dalli, who resigned last year over conflict of interest allegations involving tobacco company Swedish Match.Dalli, from Malta, had been accused of allowing a Maltese entrepreneur to offer the Swedes influence with the Commission via a lobbyist, so their smokeless snus tobacco products could be legalised within a current review of the EU tobacco products directive. The entrepreneur had been demanding significant sums ...
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