OLAF BUSTS SUGAR SCAM

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) anti-fraud unit OLAF has uncovered a rules-of-origin fraud, where 4,000 tonnes of raw cane sugar was illicitly imported into Britain and Malta duty free, using special rights available to African-Caribbean-Pacific (ACP) countries. The sugar was actually Brazilian and refined in Bulgaria, so Euro 2 million duties was evaded.



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