INCREASING CROSS-BORDER CRIME PROMPTS EU TO CRANK UP ANTI-FRAUD SERVICES
November 1st, 2012
BY CARMEN PAUN, IN BRUSSELS
IT is now 10 year since the launch of Eurojust, the European Union's (EU) judicial service coordination body, yet official figures still value fraud against EU spending and revenue programmes at for than EUR600 million (USD 800 million) each year. Despite a complicated anti-fraud institutional architecture made of Eurojust, Europol, anti-fraud unit OLAF, cyber-crime body ENISA (the European Network and Information Security Agency), and more, cases of serious organised crime and fraud against EU funds have only remained punishingly ...
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