The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Zagreb decided on 27 September 2023, to expand an investigation against two persons suspected of receiving and giving bribes, in relation to the awarding of contracts co-funded by the EU.

On 25 and 26 September 2023, 23 individuals were arrested, in a probe led by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Madrid (Spain) into a suspected criminal network dedicated to fraud involving EU agricultural funds.

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) and the Italian Financial Police (Guardia di Finanza) have launched the ‘EPPO Academy’, a tailor-made training programme. The European Chief Prosecutor, Laura Codruța Kӧvesi, and the General Commander of the Guardia di Finanza, Andrea De Gennaro, signed a working arrangement to that effect yesterday.

At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Madrid (Spain), 14 searches were carried out yesterday, in an investigation into a suspected transnational criminal organisation believed to have orchestrated a €17 million VAT fraud involving the sale of luxury cars.

On behalf of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Sofia, Bulgaria’s General Directorate for Combating Organised Crime (ГДБОП)arrested three people and carried out searches in six locations today, in an investigation into an organised crime group understood to have illegally obtained EU agricultural funds.

On 20 September 2023, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Riga (Latvia) filed criminal charges in a case involving a project aimed at creating a centre for female entrepreneurs, funded by the EU’s European Neighbourhood Instrument.

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Cluj-Napoca (Romania) is carrying out house searches today in Sibiu County, as part of an investigation into Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, suspected of fraud involving Erasmus funds.

This week, Bulgaria’s Minister of Interior, Mr Kalin Stoyanov, and European Chief Prosecutor, Laura Codruța Kӧvesi signed a working arrangement with the aim to improve the cooperation between the European Delegated Prosecutors and Bulgaria’s Ministry of Interior in the investigations of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office’s (EPPO).

On 22 August 2023, the Osnabrück Regional Court sentenced three individuals of import smuggling and organised tax evasion. The investigation, code named Cash, was led by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Hamburg (Germany) and carried out by the Hanover Customs Investigation Office since 2021.

At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Palermo (Italy), the Italian Financial Police (Guardia di Finanza) seized €80 000, in an investigation into agricultural funding fraud.