The European Anti-Fraud Office OLAF, on the basis of its investigations for 2016, recommended that the funds stolen from the EU budget be returned in 346 cases. This allowed the return to the treasury of the European Union 631 million euros and attract fraud to responsibility, said in a statement of the organization published in its. In 2015, OLAF revealed the theft of funds from the treasury of the EU amounting to 888 million euros. In 2016, the department completed 272 and opened 219 similar investigations and outlined the main trends in the withdrawal of funds from the budget of the European Union. So, still attractive for scammers is the sphere of public procurement with the involvement of corruption schemes and offshore accounts. Many fraud schemes with purchases for budgetary funds are transnational, as in the new scenarios often involve representatives of the authorities of one EU state, contractors from other EU countries, who in turn conclude subcontracts with companies located in different countries. Scientific and labor grants are also a lucrative "business" for embezzleurs, the experts of OLAF write, as they allow to apply such methods as double budget and fraud with subsidizing employment. In addition, criminal groups use complex transnational schemes to evade payment of customs duties. The most notorious was the investigation of the department against ex-candidate for the presidency of France Marin Le Pen in the case of fictitious hiring of the staff of the right-wing radical party "National Front" as assistant deputies of the European Parliament. As a result, Le Pen was asked to return to the European Parliament over 300 thousand euros, illegally expended from his means. In this regard, the judges appealed to the European Parliament with an appeal to deprive Le Pen of parliamentary immunity, because she, having used immunity, did not come to the interrogation.