COVID-19 BROUGHT NEW FRAUD OPPORTUNITIES IN EU, SAYS OLAF
June 1st, 2021
The scale of medical supply frauds committed in the European Union (EU) during the Covid-19 pandemic has been highlighted by the latest (2020) annual report (1) from the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF). It stressed that the trade in counterfeit face masks, hand sanitisers and gels, as EU countries rushed to secure stocks, often relaxing certification rules, proliferated, with fakes seized because of OLAF investigations, including 31,500 Covid-19 test kits, 2,416,000 face masks, and 140,000 litres of hand sanitiser. One year after the pandemic took hold, OLAF ...
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