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Over 80 participants took part in this year’s OLAF Anti-Fraud Communicators' Network (OAFCN) meeting where discussion ranged from communication on the Recovery and Resilience Facility to best practices from national authorities in Greece, Italy, Latvia and Slovakia and the use of podcasts!

A few incidents of fraud and phishing attempts using hoax messages and letters purporting to be from OLAF, the European Anti-Fraud Office have been detected. Be aware that OLAF never offers or requests money transfers to or from citizens.

Following a joint investigation led by the European Anti-fraud Office (OLAF), a group of nine persons and companies from Italy and Romania are now due to stand trial in Romania on charges of defrauding nearly €850,000 worth of EU agricultural funds meant for tomato production.

Under Europol’s Operation SHIELD II, the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) led an enforcement action targeting counterfeit and substandard hormonal substances, food supplements and medicines for erectile dysfunction.

Today, the European Commission adopted a proposal to revise the EU’s rules on waste shipments. The proposed changes include enhancing the role of the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) to counter cross-border waste trafficking involving suspicious movements inside the EU.

In June 2021, the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) transmitted to the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) information concerning potential fraud committed in the framework of a project co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) in Croatia.

The European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) has finalised an investigation of a sophisticated EU-wide potential fraud scheme involving the import of goods from China.  The case reveals a suspected €14 million fraud in underpaid customs duties and an estimated €93 million in VAT evaded.  

JAD Finestra’s scope was tobacco smuggling, migrant smuggling and related document fraud – and the exchange of intelligence between participating countries.

One week of operations coordinated by the Dutch authorities and supported by the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) and Europol resulted in the seizure of at least 2100 cylinders of illicit HFCs – hydrofluorocarbons – for an estimated value of over 10 million euros.