Advice on anti-COVID counterfeit goods in Europe

The European Office of Lucha against Fraud (OLAF) urges the countries of the European Union to be on the lookout for relocating vending vouchers against the COVID-19 counterfeit at a time when the bloc of 27 nations is holding demoras the same.

The OLAF has received relay notices that offenders are sending false vacancies to EU governors who intend to accelerate the pace of vacancies, the agency said in a statement on Monday.

“For example, former employers will offer large quantities of vacancies, entrust a model to log the first payment for adelantado and lie down with the diner,” said Ville Itälä, Director General of OLAF.

“Podrían entregar packages of false vacancies”, added Itälä. “The false claim is that it represents legitimate companies and is in a position to have access to the vacancies. All these affirmations have something in common: their falses ”.

The EU has been criticized for a slow distribution of vehicles against COVID-19 in comparison with other parts of the world, such as Britain and Israel. The UE Commission has signed six contracts for more than 2,000 million doses of vaccines against the coronavirus, but at the moment it has approved the use of three of them and the collection of vaccines has been interrupted by a retreat in on manufacturing.

The OLAF message is similar to an advertisement by Europol, the EU’s police agency, which in December signaled the risk of crime scenes being organized with cars against the COVID-19, including the possibility of criminal intent. sell peligrosas vacantas falsas o robar envios de las vacunas verdaderas.

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