COR FRAUD PROBE
April 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Union's anti-fraud office OLAF has been called in to investigate financial corruption at the EU's Committee of the Regions, the Brussels body which represents the view of local government across Europe.Its investigators are checking allegations made by Dutch socialist MEP Michiel van Hulten to the European Parliament that the record of financial probity at the CoR "can only be described as alarming."Mr van Hulten said that the EP budgetary control committee had heard from the CoR's internal auditor, who spoke of failures "to properly ...
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