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Franz-Hermann Brüner, Director of the EU anti-fraud office OLAF, expressed confidence that Romania's new financial control body will adequately protect the EU's financial interests in Romania.

The European Commission has recovered 142.9 million euro of EU farm aid money, misspent by Member States. The Member States will have to pay back the money because of inadequate control procedures or non-compliance with the EU rules on farm aid.

The European Commission will start legal action against several US tobacco companies for their alleged involvement in cigarettes smuggling activities.

After a meeting with Swiss Foreign Minister Deiss, the Commission announced that it wants to negotiate an anti-fraud agreement with Switzerland.

The EU's new anti-fraud office OLAF has uncovered a huge scheme by the Italian mafia, to sell fake butter and scam subsidies from the EU budget.