EU tax scandal: Investigators open fraud probe into top eurocrats after Panama Papers leak

‘Fraud investigators are probing a number of high-ranking EU officials over allegations that they used offshore bank accounts to avoid paying tax, it emerged today.
In a bombshell move the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) announced it is forensically examining the accounts of several top EU officials and civil servants over revelations contained in the Panama Papers.
An astonishing 40,000 people connected to the European Union were named in the massive document leak, which showed how the rich and famous had been using secret offshore accounts to dodge paying their fair share of tax.’
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