Authorities in Brussels yesterday (15 October) raided the offices of the European Commission’s agricultural department as part of an investigation into alleged price-cheating in the wheat-market, reports the Danish newspaper Jyllands Posten.
According to reports raids have taken place in the Netherlands, France and Belgium. A number of people have been arrested.
Among them a Commission official, who like the others who have been detained, is suspected of being involved in insider...
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