24/01/2001 (Agence Europe) - "If the report from the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) confirms that the linen industry in Spain has fraudulently benefited from Community funds, as the Spanish anti-corruption prosecutor recently stated, our group will react in such a way that the full consequences of law will fall on those who are politically responsible for this", said the EP Socialist Group in a press release, which recalls that the current Commission Vice-President, Loyola de Palacio, was at the time minister of agriculture in Spain. Ten days ago, when the Spanish press revealed that the report established by the Spanish legal authorities denounced "generalised fraud", the European Commission refused all comment, except to recall the "full confidence" that President Prodi places in its Vice-President and to stress that the Commission did not wish to "interfere" in the work of OLAF. The report from OLAF is expected within five to six weeks.