EU ROUND UP – OLAF, IP CRIME, ETC
June 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) anti-fraud unit OLAF is always at the centre of Brussels' efforts to suppress the torrents of financial crime that mar its well-intentioned efforts. OLAF's old boss has been reappointed, but there's still trouble afoot. Keith Nuthall reports.
WHEN Franz-Hermann Brüner was reappointed director of OLAF in February, after a tortuous process that involved both the European Parliament and the EU Council of Ministers preferring other candidates, he must have breathed a huge sigh of relief.
Brüner had fought tooth and nail to ...
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