EU investigates fraud by aid NGOs

The EU's anti-fraud office, Olaf, is investigating around 32 aid NGOs from ten countries for fraud in development aid-related projects.

The inquiry was launched four years ago and it has moved from a set of individual cases to evidence of systematic fraud in the area of EU funded activities.

"There has been a pattern of fraud. They get project funding from the commission, but then draw money from the World Bank or the US government using two sets of invoices," Olaf's spokesman tol...