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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9939

10 July 2009
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/fraud
European Anti-Fraud Office investigations result in more than 300 criminal convictions in 10 years

Brussels, 09/07/2009 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 9 July, the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) published its ninth annual activity report (for 2008), containing a special chapter on the judicial follow-up to its investigations. Since it was set up in 1999, OLAF has opened over 3,000 cases. More than 300 individuals have been sentenced by criminal courts as a result of OLAF's investigations to a combined total of nearly 875 years of imprisonment, 208 of which were suspended. Thanks to the...

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