OLAF hits back at critics over handling of Stern case

The EU anti-fraud office OLAF on Wednesday hit out at criticism that it treated a Brussels-based investigative journalist unfairly.

The police enquiry into the German journalist from Stern magazine, which came about due to information from OLAF, led to him being held for hours by police and his documents being confiscated.

Answering questions by MEPs from the Budgetary Control Committee on the affair, Peter Ba...