OLAF’S KESSLER MAY FIGHT HIS LOSS OF LEGAL IMMUNITY AGAINST PROSECUTION IN BELGIUM
March 1st, 2016
GIOVANNI Kessler, the director-general of OLAF, the European Union’s (EU) anti-fraud agency, has been dragged deeper into the mire of the John Dalli case, with the European Commission stripping him of his legal immunity against prosecution within Belgium. Federal prosecutors in Belgium are investigating whether Kessler broke Belgian law by allegedly suggesting to a potential witness in OLAF’s Dalli probe that she record a telephone call. While such investigative tactics are legal in most EU jurisdictions, they are illegal in Belgium. As a senior EU civil ...
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