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The article reflects on the future of financial criminal law investigations of the EU. It departs from the experts’ studies conducted which have developed the Corpus Juris Model, and recalls the historic development of the subsequent institutional debate up to the Lisbon Reform Treaty. The …

The article presents the substantive criminal-law initiative against EU-fraud, which was adopted by the Commission on 11 July 2012. After giving an overview of the status quo of criminal law protection and its challenges, the author analysis in detail the Commission proposal for the so-called …

OLAF successfully concluded investigations into a complex money laundering scheme in Romania and Belgium. Several persons came under judicial control for corruption and money laundering offences. More than €600,000 from EU money was transferred to private bank accounts

With OLAF's support in collecting intelligence on a suspicious cargo shipment from China, Dutch authorities were able to seize 14 tonnes of illicit refrigerant gases bound for the EU. The successful operation involved the Netherlands, Lithuania, and Poland. It was coordinated by OLAF and ultimately …

On 9 July 2020, OLAF reported on its role in the successful strike against cigarette smuggling in the Ukraine. Having been alerted of a suspicious shipment from the Arab United Emirates via Ukranian Black Sea ports with a final destination in Transnistria/Moldova, OLAF provided …

OLAF successfully supported the international operation OPSON IX that targeted counterfeit and substandard food and beverages, food fraud, and economically motivated adulteration. In total, 19 organised crime groups were dismantled, over 400 suspects arrested, and 320 tonnes of smuggled or substandard dairy products, e.g., rotten milk and cheese, seized.

In mid-July 2020, the Commission started preparations for the European Democracy Action Plan.