What is OLAF hiding? Two mandates and a Transparency HIT

In the 2018 annual report, OLAF still published a country-by-country table of incoming complaints from Member States (Figure 27 – page 57). Belgium: 18. Romania: 58. Spain: 32. Germany: 29. By the 2019 reporting year, that table was gone. The anti-fraud office still publishes concluded cases by country, but it stopped showing what came in. We asked OLAF for the country-level intake data for 2019–2024 and for the decision record behind its removal. OLAF refuses to answer since October 5, 2025.

Belgium received €31.2 billion in EU funding. OLAF closed four (4) cases in ten years.

Belgium received €31.1 billion in direct-management EU funding over that decade. It hosts the European Commission, the European Parliament, the Council of the EU, and OLAF itself. It is the administrative centre of the union that funds it. And across ten years of anti-fraud activity, it generated fewer concluded OLAF investigations than the Democratic Republic of Congo, which generated seven, or Uganda, which generated six.