The scale of the recently discovered EU banana fraud appears to be vast according to Alessandro Buttice representing the anti fraud office (OLAF). A spot check revealed a single cargo of 4,000 tonnes of Ecuador bananas to be an unlicensed import. More than 100 such transactions had taken place since March 1998 accounting for 160,000 tonnes. The figure is around 2% of EU requirements. {{FRESH PRODUCE }}

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