EU ROUND UP – COVID 19 SCAMS SPARK ACTION FROM EU ANTI-FRAUD AGENCIES AND POLITICIANS
May 2nd, 2020
EUROPEAN Union (EU) anti-fraud agencies and the politicians controlling have continued to fight the surge in fraud and cyber-crime prompted by the disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. An inquiry launched by the European anti-fraud office OLAF has identified more than 340 companies involved in selling counterfeit or sub-standard products sold as protecting against the disease - face masks, medical devices, disinfectants, sanitisers, medicine and test kits. It added that “millions of substandard medical products with fake EU conformity certificates ...
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