Almost one tenth of EU spending on tourism projects in the period from 1990 to 1995 may have been linked to fraud

Date: 16/07/1998

or other irregularities, according to an audit report approved by the Commission this week. The report gives further details about the long-running controversy over alleged misuse of EU tourism payments, saying the “substantial fraud element could be linked to the irregular activities of former personnel who have been dismissed by the Commission”. It said 2.9 million ecu was related to 76 actions “which are considered to be linked to irregularities or fraud” currently the subject of criminal proceedings in Belgium, France and Greece.