EU sends London notice of 2.7 billion

The European Commission is demanding an arrears of 2.

The United Kingdom was asked last year to deposit nearly 2 billion euros in lost customs revenue in the Brussels cash after the OLAF fraud service of the EU had established that importers are fraudulent on a large scale.

The British had been warned for years about possible fraud in the import of textiles and footwear from China, but they did so. For example, women's pants were fictitiously valued at 91 cents per kilo, while only the market price of cotton was 1.44 euro per kilo.

The commission has calculated that the damage for the EU budget in the period from November 2011 to December last year amounts to 2.7 billion euros.