ECJ BACKS OLAF IN TILLACK RAID CASE
September 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has effectively indemnified European Union (EU) anti-fraud office OLAF from legal responsibility for the response of national police forces to which it has passed information. In a case involving a German journalist Martin Tillack, the ECJ refused to condemn OLAF's transfer of allegations regarding payments to his contacts and breaches of professional confidentiality during his investigations of financial scandals at the European Commission. Tillack was later raided by Belgian police with documents being ...
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