Combating irregularities in the allocation and use of the EU’s funds – crime schemes, mechanisms and investigation strategies

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Poland with Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova and Ukraine by strengthening common cooperation and best practises exchange in EU’s funds crime combat project unites efforts to fight effectively crimes detrimental to EU’s financial interests such as fraud, corruption and any other illegal activities affecting financial interests of EU committed with usage of EU funds. The police/customs foreign experts altogether with experts from Marshal's Office in Lublin, Agency for Restructuring and Modernization of Agriculture in Lublin, National Revenue Administration, National Centre for Research and Development, Polish Agency for Enterprise Development, City Office in Lublin during the seminar will increase their administrative and technical capacity in area of EU funds crime combat and strengthen the cooperation. In all project participating countries there are committed offences which siphon off funds and defraud EU budget starting from the crimes done at the initial stage of the project cycle which is application and project selection ending in project closure and evaluation stage. Despite introduction of robust control procedures by institutions possessing and having at disposal financial means, this is the Police which plays an important role in ensuring to obey legal regulations, detect irregularities and fraud and take the appropriate measures in relation to them. Short term beneficiaries are project participants – seminar experts. Medium term beneficiaries-law enforcement authorities as well as project institutions controlling or distributing the EU funds to whom contact list, leaflet promoting the project and best practices with study cases on fighting EU funds crime will be disseminated. Long term beneficiaries will be EU inhabitants as their feeling of safety will rise due to EU budget crime decrease. The project will be run for 18 months, starting in September, 2022.