OLAF's investigative activity: trends in anti-fraud investigations

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The OLAF report 

. OLAF’s investigative activity:

trends in anti-fraud investigations

Figure : OLAF’s investigative activity in 

.. Summary of OLAF’s

investigative performance

in 

OLAF’s investigative performance in 2019 (Figure 3)

was broadly in line with previous years. On the basis

of incoming information from both private and public

sources, some 1174 case selections were made during

the year, leading to a total of 223 investigations being

opened. Some 181 were concluded during the year,

leading to OLAF issuing 254 recommendations to

competent authorities at EU and national levels. The

majority of these recommendations concern the

recovery of EU funds – nearly €485 million in 2019– by

the relevant authorities at EU and Member State levels.

OLAF also issued a limited number of judicial, disciplinary

and administrative recommendations in 2019. For a

detailed presentation of these and other performance

indicators, please refer to the annex to this report

(Chapter 10).

Table 1 shows the breakdown of the investigations

concluded by OLAF in 2019 concerning EU funds

managed or spent in whole or in part at national or

regional level. Table 2 shows that, as was the case in

previous years, the European Stru ctural and Investment

Funds account for the majority of OLAF’s investigative

activity.