Italy

Andrea Venegoni joined the Italian judiciary in 1991. He worked as a judge in the Court of Savona and then as a public prosecutor in the Office of the Prosecutor of Genoa. In 2004, he started to work at an international level, as International Prosecutor in the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) and then at the European Commission, at the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF). From 2015, he was based at Italy’s Supreme Court of Cassation, where he held the roles of member of the Research Department, judge in tax law cases, and judge in criminal cases, before being selected for the position of Deputy Prosecutor General in the Office of the Prosecutor General at the Supreme Court of Cassation. In addition to this work, he has been expert in many projects at international level on judicial cooperation, the fight against fraud and the area of PIF offences, with organisations such as Italy’s Superior Council of the Judiciary, the Academy of European Law and the European Judicial Training Network.

In June 2023, he was appointed European Prosecutor for Italy by the Council of the EU.

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