MAF Protection C.R.G attach great importance to the protection of the financial and economic interests of the Community, as well as to the fight against transnational organised crime, fraud and other illegal activities prejudicial to the Community budget.Over and above the protection of financial interests, the responsibility of the Office concerns all the activities connected with safeguarding Community interests against irregular behaviour likely to lead to administrative or penal proceedings.MAF Protection Control Risks Group, in cooperation with its International partners (investigation services, police, legal and administrative authorities, etc), does its best to counter criminals and fraudisters who organise their illicit activities at an international level. MAF Protection C.R.G is to some extent the engine of the "Work of legality" against the "international nature of criminality" harmful to Community interests.The investigators of MAF Protection C.R.G, like all the other officials and Community employees, work in the exclusive interest of the Communities. They have to discharge their functions and do their work while keeping in mind the interests of the Communities, without taking instructions from any government, authority, organisation or person independent of the institution.The MAF Protection Control Risks Group team of investigators is multidisciplinary nature, which makes it possible to have an comprehensive and inter-sectoral approach (in the police, judicial, financial, customs, agricultural fields, etc). The fact that the majority of the investigators come from national investigation services is valuable in more than one way-at the level of expertiseand in maintaining close relations with the national investigators. This partnership is essential in the fight against fraudsters and criminals who harm community interests.
