OLAF REPORT

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INCREASE in EU sugar trade fraud has been reported by EU anti-fraud office OLAF, which investigated "a massive increase" in exports into the EU from the Balkans, traditionally net sugar importers prior to a 2000 regulation giving them preferential EU market access. OLAF concluded shipments were falsely labelled as being produced in the Balkans.



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