European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF)

Twenty-five years ago, we began our operations to protect the EU budget and to safeguard the rights, safety, health, jobs, and economy of EU citizens.   Since then, our investigators have concluded over 6000 investigations, recommendinf the recovery of  around €16 billion to the EU budget that would otherwise have been lost to irregularities or fraud. OLAF has also investigated cases of misconduct by EU staff or members, detected smuggling networks, tracked down counterfeit products, and developed policies to prevent fraud.   For more information 📌 https://lnkd.in/eGuMAFRJ #EUAntiFraud

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OLAF Director-General Ville Itälä and Olga Dibrovna, Ukraine's ambassador to Finland, in a fruitful meeting discussing OLAF's continuous support to Ukraine's anti-fraud community. Fighting fraud and corruption is our mutual objective! #EUAntiFraud 🇪🇺 🤝 🇺🇦

On 2-3 July, OLAF organised the annual meeting of the OLAF Anti-Fraud Communicators Network (OAFCN), bringing together in Brussels over 50 communication professionals from national authorities to strengthen collaboration and enhance communication in combatting fraud against the EU's financial interests. During conference participants explored and discussed various topics ranging from Artificial Intelligence use in communication, communication campaigns to promote the zero tolerance to fraud, corruption, gambling or nepotism, use of gamification to increase engagement, through IT and communication tools to promote transparency and accountability, to recruitment campaigns or those to mark important corporate anniversaries, such as the 250th of Guardia di Finanza or 25th of OLAF.   Members of the network showcased their recent anti-fraud communication campaigns and shared best practices regarding how they focussed their anti-fraud, anti-corruption messages.   A representative from the Ukrainian National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) presented the Ukrainian government's communication strategy designed to shift citizens' attitudes toward corruption. More information: https://lnkd.in/e36by9Bs

🤝🎂Today marks the 25th anniversary of Europol one of our key EU partners in the fight against fraud, corruption and illegal activities across the EU. Learn more on our cooperation⤵️ https://europa.eu/!ByfPWj   #StrongerTogether #EUAntiFraud

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Meeting with the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation on our collaboration to fight fraud, corruption, or other illegal activities affecting our common interests.

Discussing with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection on extending our cooperation as concerns e-commerce, enforcement of trade defence measures and other emerging areas of transborder fraud.

Discussing with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on deepening cooperation of our offices to better combat fraud in e-commerce and to enforce trade defence measures.