Brussels, 23/04/2008 (Agence Europe) - A system of fraud consisting of claiming for EC agricultural subsidies for over 900,000 tons of non-existing raw tobacco has been discovered by the Italian Carabinieri police force, says a press release from the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) on 23 April. More specifically, two main fraud schemes have been discovered. In the first, shipments to foreign companies were fabricated in order to conceal from the Italian control bodies that the raw tobacco...