OLAF
March 1st, 2001
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE PERFORMANCE of OLAF, the European Union's new and supposedly independent anti-fraud office, has been criticised by the European Parliament's Budgetary Control Committee; it has suggested that it has not worked more effectively than its predecessor UCLAF, the European Commission's in-house fraud busting unit.A committee report, drafted by Austrian socialist MEP Herbert Bosch, highlighted the fact that the OLAF Supervisory Committee has noted that "the organisation of the protection of the EU's financial interests had not yet noticeably ...
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