OLAF SHOWS TREND OF GANGS INFILTRATING EU FUNDING
June 27th, 2022
The latest annual report from the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) has shown a “worrying phenomenon” of organised criminal groups infiltrating the economy “to get their hands on” European Union (EU) grants and loans. Criminality is being committed “through patterns of administrative irregularities, such as double funding, conflict of interest, manipulation of tenders, and other means”, said The OLAF report 2021, released on June 8 (2022) (1).
It warned that cases, detected and investigated, showed fraudsters “are already developing new tactics to ...
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