INTERVIEW WITH FRANZ-HERMANN BRÜNER, OLAF Director-General
December 1st, 2006
BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels, and KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) anti-fraud office OLAF has taken a lot of flack in recent years, accused of being slow, over-aggressive, secretive and even sloppy. But it has a tough job, made harder by the unwillingness of some EU member states to publicise their management of the EU funds they handle. Despite this, OLAF's handling of cases has speeded up and it has scored a series of scalps in high profile fraud cases. Its second-term director general Franz-Hermann Brüner spoke to Accountancy Age as he looked ahead to a ...
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