EUROPEAN COURT CENSURES OLAF OVER EUROSTAT PROBE
July 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
DAMAGES have been awarded to the former executives of European Union (EU) statistical agency Eurostat after it was found their human rights had been breached in a high profile EU fraud probe.
The European Court of Justice's (ECJ) Court of First Instance found that both EU anti-fraud office OLAF and the European Commission had broken procedural rules when investigating Eurostat former director-general Yves Franchet and former director Daniel Byk.
OLAF concluded that both men had committed illegal irregularities regarding Eurostat financial ...
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