On 4 November 2025, the European Commission appointed Czech prosecutor Petr Klement as new Director-General of OLAF. He succeeds Ville Itälä whose seven-year term of office ended on 31 July 2025 (→eucrim 2-2025, 123-124).

Petr Klement is an expert in the protection of financial interests and in cybercrime. He has more than 20 years of experience in investigating and prosecuting serious economic and financial crimes, both at the national and European levels. He is currently European Prosecutor for Czechia at the European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO) and has been Deputy European Chief Prosecutor at the EPPO since 29 July 2023. He was a member of the OLAF Supervisory Committee from 2017 to 2020. He was seconded to Eurojust in 2007, to North Kosovo under the EU Rule of Law Mission (EULEX), and to the Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA) 2010 project in Tirana, Albania. Mr Klement also held senior positions in the Czech Prosecutor General's Office. The assumption of his office at OLAF will be determined at a later stage.