EU anti-fraud office in ‘open hostility’ with independence panel

The EU's internal fraud office, Olaf, has had a 'significant breakdown' in relations with its supervisory committee - a panel designed to ensure the fraud investigators are working independently of external pressure.

The findings are part of a report published 17 April 2013 by the UK's House of Lords looking into fraud in the EU budget.

The head of the panel, Johan Denolf, indicated it was the supervisor rather than Olaf itself that was being supervised, while panel member and MEP Herbert Bosch said that without the panel's supervision "Olaf is an unguided missile."

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: EU anti-fraud office accused of cover-up in Dalli affair http://www.europeansources.info/record/eu-anti-fraud-office-accused-of-cover-up-in-dalli-affair/

United Kingdom: House of Lords: EU Committee: Sub-Committee E: Report: Government must take responsibility for EU fraud and act to plug the leaking fiscal gap in EU finances, says Lords , April 2013 http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/lords-select/eu-law-and-institutions-sub-committee-e/news/publication-of-report---fight-against-fraud/

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