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THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) anti-fraud office OLAF has unveiled a study that signals huge losses directly caused by corruption in public procurement. It identified how in 2010, between Euro EUR1.4 and 2.2 billion was lost in tenders within just five sectors in eight EU member states.…

A EUROPEAN Commission study has called for an increase in spectrum allocated to wifi, to help communications service providers deal with growing demand. It noted that 71% of all European Union (EU) wireless data traffic in 2012 was delivered to smartphones and tablets using wifi, possibly rising to 78% by 2016.…

IT has been regarded as a hidden commercial crime – the losses to governments caused by corruption in public procurement. An OLAF report suggests its scale in Europe could be huge. Keith Nuthall reports.

THERE is no sugar coating these numbers: the European Union’s (EU) anti-fraud office OLAF has unveiled a study that claimed in 2010 alone, between Euro EUR1.4 and 2.7 billion was lost to corruption in public procurement tenders within just five sectors in eight EU member states.…

Had you wanted Mike Khaffaf, owner and director of High Quality Painting on Sydney’s affluent North Shore, to come and paint your house four years ago, you would have had to wait at least six weeks for his services. Now, he can “start next Monday.”…

TECHNICAL and security experts have gathered at the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) to consider how to roll-out developing automated border control (ABC) systems, which offer hard-pressed airports the ability to better process surging passenger numbers.

Staged at ICAO’s headquarters, in Montréal, Canada, from October 22 to 24, the agency’s ninth symposium and exhibition on MRTDs [machine readable travel documents] biometrics and border security debated ABC developments such as newly-emerging technologies; trust issues; reliability; non-intrusiveness; biometrics; effective inspections tools; trusted traveller programmes; challenges to border integrity and ways to address them.…

IF further evidence was needed that Asian outsourcing is becoming increasingly mature, with a reliance on international supply chains, then the FOB division of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam’s Nha Be Garment Corporation Joint Stock Company (NBC) is a case in point.…

EXPORT refunds paid by the European Union (EU) to bovine livestock exporters, ahead of a suspension of these subsidies last September (2012), were dwindling and dominated by four countries, the latest data from the European Commission has revealed.

Brussels paid out Euro EUR5.7 million on such sales in 2012, said the Commission, down from EUR9.6 million in 2011, and around EUR10 million in 2008 and 2009 (EUR8.6 million was paid out in 2010).…

A EUROPEAN Commission-ordered report has highlighted significant

shortcomings in gas interconnectors crossing national European Union (EU)

borders that are restricting the development of an EU gas market.

This ‘Study on Entry-Exit Regimes in Gas’ by the Netherlands’ DNV KEMA and

COWI Belgium said the absence of virtual trading points or short-term capacity

products are “highly critical barriers for the development of a well-functioning

entry-exit system”.…

A SIGNIFICANT set of acquisitions by Brazilian meat major JBS has been given European Union (EU) regulatory approval by the European Commission. Acting as Europe’s international competition regulator, the Commission approved JBS’ purchase from Brazilian food processor Marfrig Alimentos of Netherlands-based Columbus Netherlands BV also known as Zenda) and six Brazilian-based companies that together form the Seara group.…

IS IT possible to divine ‘golden rules’ that increase the likelihood of freezing order relief being granted and lessen the risk of scoring an own-goal when potential costs are compared with what may be recovered?

Fraud Intelligence asked Thomas K Sprange, a partner and Solicitor Advocate in the London office of international law firm King & Spalding and a member of the firm’s International Arbitration Group.…