Magyarországon tavaly 13 vizsgálatot folytattak az OLAF szakemberei, eközben a teljes egészében vagy részben nemzeti vagy regionális szinten kezelt uniós források felhasználását vizsgálták. A hivatal több mint öt évet felölelő időszakban rekord számú ajánlást bocsátott ki. Hazánkra vonatkozóan 2007–14 között 13 igazságügyi ajánlás készült. Uniós szinten az OLAF tavaly 901 millió euró visszafizettetését javasolta, amely várhatóan fokozatosan áramlik vissza az uniós költségvetésbe, és újra finanszírozásra fogják felhasználni.

A ma közzétett, 2014-re vonatkozó eredmények megerősítik, hogy az OLAF a múlt években egyre hatékonyabbá vált, és az uniós adófizetők számára kézzelfogható eredményeket tud felmutatni.

 

Results of OLAF’s work

As a result of the 3 500 investigations OLAF has completed since it was set up in 1999:

# 335 individuals have received prison sentences totalling 900 years

# over €1.1 billion of EU money has been recovered (excluding financial penalties)

# on average OLAF has recovered €100 million a year.

 

Results for 2012:

# €94.5 million recovered for the EU budget

# EU Member State courts issued a cumulative 511 years of prison sentences – not including an additional 70 years of suspended sentences.

How much does OLAF cost EU tax payers?

# OLAF’s running costs for 2012 amount to €57.4 million

# OLAF is also providing €21.5 million in grants and project funding to help authorities and organisations fight fraud both inside and outside the EU.

How many people are involved in fighting fraud in the EU?

# EU countries manage 80% of EU funds and have primary responsibility for fighting fraud. They employ most of those involved in this fight for example 500 000 police officers.

# OLAF has 435 staff – of which more than two-thirds work on fraud investigations.

What is OLAF’s case load?

# OLAF had 716 ongoing cases at the end of 2012, out of which 515 were investigation cases and 201 were coordination cases.

# OLAF opened 718 new cases and closed 465 cases in 2012.

# Average length of an investigation was 17.3 months in 2012.

# Average length of the selection of cases was 1.4 months in 2012.

How much fraud is committed in the EU?

EU countries reported:

Expenditure

# irregularities reported as fraudulent costing €315 million (0.25% of total EU expenditure) in 2012 –  compared with €295 million (0.21%) in 2011

# irregularities not reported as fraudulent costing €2.6 billion (2.06% of total EU expenditure) in 2012 –  compared with €1.2 billion (0.86% of total EU expenditure) in 2011

Revenue

# irregularities reported as fraudulent involving €77.6 million (0.42% of the gross amount of traditional own resources collected) for 2012 compared with €109 million (1.24%) for 2011

# irregularities not reported as fraudulent involving €370 million (1.69% of the gross amount of traditional own resources collected) for 2012 compared with €278 million (1.24%) for 2011

Financial corrections and recovery

# Financial corrections for more than €3.7 billion and recoveries for €678 million were implemented in 2012 compared with €1.1 billion and €733 million respectively in 2011.