EU anti-fraud office accused of cover-up in Dalli affair

The EU anti-fraud office, Olaf, has been accused of telling a key witness in the 'Dalligate' affair to lie and of illegally listening in on people's phones.

The allegations came out in a hearing by the European Parliament's budgetary control committee in Brussels on 21 March 2013.

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