In 1988-1989, Eximo, a German dairy products company, received from FEOGA a 24.5 million Euro export refund. FEOGA is the European Union’s Fund-subsidising agricultural activities in Member States. The Commission services had doubts as to the final destination of the subsidised products and in 1992 the-then UCLAF (now OLAF) carried out an investigation and asked German authorities for a total recovery of the export refunds from Eximo. In 1995, the German authorities asked Eximo to pay back the subsidies. Eximo took the recovery order to a German provincial court (!!!) which in September 2004, with a non-appealable decision (!!!), issued with at least the tolerance of the European Commission (!!!), annulled the decision of OLAF (!!!). In June, 2005, on the basis of the ruling of the provincial German court, OLAF closed the case in its irregularities database (!!!).