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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8456
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/fraud

Fraudulent use of Commission's name for commercial aims

Brussels, 06/05/2003 (Agence Europe) - The European Anti-Fraud Office OLAF has concluded the investigations it launched in April 2002 into the fraudulent use of the European Commission's name to make money and has reported its findings to the Belgian judicial authorities. The perpetrators of the act claimed to be preventing money-laundering involving Europe and the United States when they asked for money from private citizens in exchange for an "anti-terrorist" certificate, supposedly issued by the European Commission's Monetary Control Board, a body that does not exist. OLAF explains that this is not an isolated case - it investigated three other such cases in 2002. OLAF called on the public to report all suspicious incidents.

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