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Subido el 6 de julio de 2007 por EducaMadrid

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This second report is a collection of declarations by OLAF's principal partners from all over Europe in the fight against fraud and cross border crime, particularly the police and judicial services. They appear in alphabetical order of the countries and department names in their original language. On 1 January 2004, the Member States were Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Spain, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, Finland, Sweden and the United Kingdom; the accession countries were the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia; and the candidate countries were Bulgaria and Romania.

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OLAF, the European Anti-Fraud Office, was set up on 1 June 1999 to replace EUCLAF, the 00:00:00
Unit for Coordination of Fraud Prevention, created in 1988 as part of the Secretariat 00:00:25
General of the Commission. 00:00:31
In creating OLAF, the European institutions wanted to provide themselves with an instrument 00:00:33
for fighting trans-border economic and financial crime, fraud and corruption that harms community 00:00:37
interests, in particular Europe's public finances. 00:00:42
With these first-hand accounts from its main operational partners in the fight against 00:00:46
fraud and cross-border crime, OLAF wishes to demonstrate to the people of Europe the 00:00:50
benefits of this cooperation. 00:00:54
This video on OLAF and international cooperation has been produced in close cooperation with 00:01:12
the members of OLAF's Anti-Fraud Communicators Network, which is made up of public relations 00:01:17
and communication officials in OLAF and in the national departments, which are its principal 00:01:22
partners in the member states and the candidate countries. 00:01:26
It is intended to provide the public with better information about the anti-fraud cooperation 00:01:30
that exists between community institutions and national departments. 00:01:34
The activities of the Hungarian Customs and Finance Guard consists in detecting and investigating 00:02:04
offences against financial and customs legislation falling within its remit, including urgent 00:02:22
criminal investigations. 00:02:28
The Guard plays a vital role in preventing and acting on crime. 00:02:30
Basically, our cooperation is concentrated on the fight against the smuggling of cigarettes 00:02:36
and goods, particularly in transit. 00:02:47
Currently, we focus attention on preparation to our accession to EU membership, and apart 00:02:51
from attending training, we also try to lay the foundations of our connections to the 00:03:00
databases operated by the European Union by OLAF. 00:03:12
OLAF's contact in Malta is the Internal Audit and Investigations Directorate, which has 00:03:31
two functions – to conduct internal audits of public services and to carry out financial 00:03:35
investigations. 00:03:41
We have very much up to now cooperated with OLAF, both in terms of training and in terms 00:03:48
of support, in terms of exchange of information. 00:03:55
Even in Malta, we have set up a structure which is working, we have opened up coordination 00:03:59
with both the customs and the police authorities on joint investigations. 00:04:05
The team that works on economic crime is a specialist one that operates within the Maltese 00:04:20
police force. 00:04:25
It is responsible for investigating all financial offences, such as fraud, misappropriation 00:04:26
of funds, smuggling, customs offences, violations of intellectual property rights, counterfeiting 00:04:31
and corruption. 00:04:36
The requests from foreign agencies concerning such a contraband of cigarettes and large 00:04:43
amounts of extradition requests for persons involved in such crimes. 00:04:51
The Republican National Guard is a military-style security force that is in charge of internal 00:05:13
security, criminal investigations and the prevention of tax and customs offences. 00:05:18
The connection between the Fiscal Brigade and OLAF goes back to the 90s, when it was 00:05:42
known as EUCLAF. 00:05:46
In January this year, the Fiscal Brigade seized a cargo of 15 million cigarettes. 00:05:48
Through close collaboration with OLAF, it was able to reconstruct a cigarette smuggling 00:05:54
route and uncover a link with American tobacco producers. 00:05:59
Alongside its investigative and preventive role, Portugal's criminal police service operates 00:06:12
a central national crime register and organizes coordination on operational matters. 00:06:25
It also serves as a link between the Portuguese authorities and international organizations, 00:06:30
including Interpol and Europol. 00:06:35
We can measure the quality of this cooperation in several ways. 00:06:42
The first concerns the international experts who are integrated in OLAF, and act as the 00:07:03
link between OLAF and Portugal's criminal police. 00:07:08
A second aspect, on the financial side, is the acquisition of technical assistance for 00:07:13
combating financial crime. 00:07:18
By a decision taken on the 23rd of May 2003, the Romanian government designated the Prime 00:07:34
Minister's Control Department as the sole point of contact with OLAF. 00:07:40
It is responsible for coordinating all activities relating to the protection of Romania's financial 00:07:43
interests and those of the European Union. 00:07:48
The Romanian government control department has been very proud of becoming the contact 00:07:56
point of OLAF. 00:08:04
We understood the responsibility of this, and having all the support from the OLAF central 00:08:07
office in Brussels, in training our people, in preparing our procedures, in making the 00:08:16
public more aware of the importance of this, we have already got some success, and we are 00:08:25
very, very optimistic for the future. 00:08:33
Romania's police force is a specialized body responsible for safeguarding people's constitutional 00:08:49
rights and freedoms, protecting public and private property, preventing and investigating 00:08:53
crime and maintaining law and order. 00:08:58
The police force is a public service that seeks to protect in practice the interests 00:09:02
of individuals and society as a whole. 00:09:06
It also supports other institutions, acting exclusively within the confines of the law. 00:09:08
Cooperation is thorough, the OLAF contact point. 00:09:17
We need direct cooperation between OLAF and the Romanian police because we have several 00:09:36
investigations underway. 00:09:42
The police in Slovenia aim to achieve maximum internal security for all citizens and to 00:10:03
protect the constitution, democracy, human rights and fundamental freedoms. 00:10:07
The police expect to carry out operational missions in cooperation with the European 00:10:21
Union. 00:10:26
This means that OLAF is our contact point. 00:10:27
All of these activities will be conducted in accordance with Slovenian legislation. 00:10:30
A state prosecutor accountable only to the constitution and the law represents Slovenia's 00:10:48
public prosecution service. 00:10:53
His position and powers place him on a par with judges and no outside influence can be 00:10:55
able to bear on him. 00:11:00
In July 2002, Slovenia's government created a multi-sector working group to look at the 00:11:09
issue of cooperation with OLAF. 00:11:14
This brought together all of the state's most important organizations. 00:11:16
They were responsible for analyzing the mechanisms that can be used to ensure that the European 00:11:21
community interests are protected. 00:11:26
Slovakia's central contact point for OLAF was created on the 1st of January 2002 within 00:11:34
the government office's internal audit department. 00:11:40
It was set up with the aim of ensuring cooperation on the protection of the community's financial 00:11:44
interests. 00:11:48
A special structure known as AFKOS is made up of representatives from various bodies 00:11:49
including the audit office, the public prosecution service, the ministry of the interior and 00:11:56
the customs service. 00:12:01
From its establishment our department has conducted a number of administrative investigations 00:12:06
on its own on certain proposals but also many administrative investigations in accordance 00:12:15
with the cooperation with the investigators from the European anti-fraud office. 00:12:26
Sweden's National Economic Crimes Bureau cooperates closely with the tax and customs department. 00:12:44
It deals with fraud that is seen as a threat to the financial interests of the community. 00:12:50
The Swedish Economic Crimes Bureau is also appointed to be the national contact point 00:13:07
to OLAF by the Swedish government. 00:13:13
This means that the bureau assists OLAF and national authorities with specific contact 00:13:16
points and helps to speed up the process when somebody has a question for the opposite body. 00:13:21
The Serious Fraud Office is a UK investigation and prosecution agency responsible for examining 00:13:29
the largest and most complicated cases of fraud. 00:13:46
The SFO also conducts investigations in its jurisdiction on behalf of foreign anti-fraud 00:13:49
agencies seeking evidence in the UK for their cases. 00:13:55
Each national agency brings its own skills, its own expertise, its own experience but 00:14:09
we need to do more than that. We need to cooperate, we need to exchange information, we need to 00:14:15
exchange evidence between us. We need to have a truly international approach to dealing 00:14:21
with international financial criminals. That is why we at the Serious Fraud Office have 00:14:27
our mutual legal assistant unit to help our colleagues both from judicial and investigative 00:14:32
agencies as well as OLAF. 00:14:39
For more information visit www.olaf.org 00:14:51
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