€132 million worth of fake World Cup merch, stopped before kickoff. ⚽

Customs authorities on four continents, one OLAF-coordinated operation: 2.1 million items seized, a factory near Madrid shut down, 3,300 online stores closed.

Press release 👉link.europa.eu/dx6hF8

It was a pleasure welcoming @NKRF, the Norwegian Association of Local Government Auditors, to our Brussels office!
Exchanges like this link EU anti-fraud work with the auditors who protect public money close to citizens. Takk for besøket! 🇳🇴

We stand ready to safeguard the next EU budget so that every euro reaches the projects and people it’s meant for 🫡

🇵🇱 Happy National Day, Poland! Wszystkiego najlepszego!

Polish customs flagged vehicles “destined for Türkiye” but likely headed to Russia. OLAF tracked 766 of them there, in breach of EU sanctions.

Thank you, Poland! 🤝
link.europa.eu/bkTtgR

A successful day with our colleagues from @EUauditors is complete! 🤝

Our annual hybrid workshop brought together auditors and investigators to exchange operational information and best practices.

As Director-General Petr Klement put it, anti-fraud bodies should hunt as a pack: know each other’s strengths, understand each other’s moves and act in step. 👥

Panels covered the 2028-2034 MFF and AI in fraud detection. Thanks to all who joined!

“Sanctions are only as strong as their enforcement.” 🇪🇺

OLAF joined the 10th High-Level Group on Union Restrictive Measures, hosted by @EU_Finance, to help Member States enforce EU sanctions uniformly.

finance.ec.europa.eu/news/commissio…

OLAF DG Petr Klement presented how we help Member States stop sanctions circumvention:
🔎 Patterns in trade and customs data
🤝 Operational support
📨 Intelligence sharing

OLAF will continue to play its full part.
anti-fraud.ec.europa.eu/media-corner/n…

In a report by @TomasZdechovsky and @DickErixon, endorsed today by @EP_BudgControl, MEPs demand closer cooperation between EU anti-fraud bodies @EUProsecutor and @EUAntiFraud. More in the press release ⬇️
link.europa.eu/hrTmm8

Congratulations to Andrés Ritter on becoming European Chief Prosecutor at @EUProsecutor, and thank you to Laura Kövesi for building EPPO over the past seven years. We look forward to continuing our close cooperation. 🤝

👉Curious how OLAF and EPPO work together? Our factsheet on complementary investigations explains it: anti-fraud.ec.europa.eu/document/downl…

Trip or treat?🎃

With @douane_france, we disrupted the trade in THC-infused gummies sold in fake packs copying a well-known European brand.

This Halloween, keep the scares for the costumes, not the candy bag🍬

🔗link.europa.eu/GnkRWD

Happy national day to all Czechs working in the EU institutions, and everywhere else! 🇨🇿 Nazdar!
- Director-General Petr Klement

Alles Gute zum Nationalfeiertag! 🇦🇹

🏔️Austria was one of the countries involved in “Coal of the Alps”, the operation we supported in May. It uncovered a complex scheme to systematically circumvent EU waste legislation.

Full story: link.europa.eu/CDc7GM

2nd Waste Shipment Enforcement Group meeting, co-chaired with @DubCityCouncil 🌍

Sharing intel on illicit waste trade 🔍

➕November’s plastic waste export ban to non-OECD countries and its impact on fraud schemes 🚯

📄Read here: link.europa.eu/njrT9R

Kazakhstan came to visit OLAF! 🇰🇿🇪🇺

We were delighted to welcome Ms Zhanel Kushukova, Vice Minister of Trade and Integration, and her delegation.

Thanks for the cooperation so far. Working together helps protect genuine producers and exporters.

Tobacco smuggling is changing...🚭

📍In Larnaca 🇨🇾, OLAF and Cyprus Customs brought together EU and partner countries to discuss e-cigarettes, nicotine pouches, air cargo and Mediterranean routes.

📰Find all the details here: link.europa.eu/Xggjvq

If we want to fight #corruption, we need to fund institutions like @EUAntiFraud and @EUProsecutor adequately.

Signing a Working Arrangement with the Authority for Anti-Money Laundering & Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AMLA):
🤝 link.europa.eu/JRcYdF
This will help us share intelligence & expertise to tackle fraud involving EU funds faster & recover more money for the budget.

OLAF DG Petr Klement at the 🇨🇿 Supreme Audit Office in Prague, invited by President @miloslav_kala, with @EUProsecutor, @EUauditors & local authorities.
Topics: Procurement fraud, using AI, & combining administrative & law enforcement action. Better cooperation, better results.