OLAF SAYS EU AIRPORT RUNWAY CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS RIDDLED WITH CORRUPTION

EUROPEAN Union (EU) anti-fraud agency OLAF has concluded EU airport runway construction projects maybe riddled with corruption. The conclusion comes in a report it commissioned from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) into EU public procurement. It concluded between 37%–53% of airport runway construction works contracts were probably dirty in some way – the highest proportion in the six sectors it examined. Researchers looked at 192 tenders in France, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania and Spain as a sample. Because corruption in procedures ...


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