EU ADDS PROSECUTORIAL MUSCLE TO ANTI-FRAUD EFFORTS – IT MAY REDUCE CRIMEEU ADDS PROSECUTORIAL MUSCLE TO ANTI-FRAUD EFFORTS – IT MAY REDUCE CRIME
January 1st, 2022
The complexity of the European Union (EU) and its institutions has long a honeypot for fraudsters, but 2021 saw an unprecedented increase in EU anti-crime capacity building. Will this deliver results? There is evidence it may. Keith Nuthall reports.
If the EU’s anti-fraud unit OLAF is to be believed, financial scams impacting EU expenditure and revenue generation are already on the decline. It said the ‘Report on the protection of the European Union's financial interests - Fight against fraud – 2020’ (released in September 2021) concluded ...
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