OLAF – STERN ROW
May 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Ombudsman has asked the European Parliament to censure European Union (EU) anti-fraud unit OLAF for making what he considers "false statements" in one of his inquiries. P. Nikiforos Diamandouros has taken this unusual step over claims made by OLAF that a journalist had bribed a European Commission official to secure documents about the EU's Eurostat financing scandal. These claims have been taken to refer to Hans-Martin Tillack, the former Brussels correspondent of Germany's Stern magazine, and were later found - concluded the ...
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