Dear European Anti-Fraud Office,

Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as
developed in Regulation 1049/2001, I am requesting documents which
contain the following information:

Please tell me how many MEPs have been investigated by OLAF,
over the last three years.

Of these please tell me how many were cleared and how many were
recommended for action to be taken.

Of those where action has been recommended, please tell me:

- the MEPs nationality
- his/her political grouping
- the charges they faced and OLAF's findings in relation to them
- who the case was referred to and the result of the
prosecution/final action

Yours faithfully,

Chris Harris
Euronews
60 Chemin des Mouilles
69131 Écully
Lyon
France

Dear European Anti-Fraud Office,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of European Anti-Fraud Office's handling of my FOI request 'OLAF probes into MEPs'.

They have provided some limited information, the effort for which I appreciate.

For example they provided general information about the number of OLAF investigations there were into EU institutions and its staff.

However I asked, in relation to each investigation, brief details of the charges, whether the probe is into EU institutions, staff or MEPs.

Nothing has been provided. This information, I am certain, is contained within a database, so a simple query could retrieve it.

For cases in which the person or institution was found to be guilty, there is an overiding public interest in revealing the details. It involves, in some cases, taxpayers' money and elected officials.

Even in cases where someone has been cleared, there is a similar, clear public interest in revealing the charges, even if the identity of the person is concealed.

There is also limited information on investigations into MEPs. Again there is a strong public interest for everything I requested to be provided, given these people are elected officials.

Thanks.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: http://www.asktheeu.org/en/request/olaf_...

Yours faithfully,

Chris Harris