At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Berlin (Germany), multiple searches were conducted today in five different federal states of Germany, in a probe into suspected customs fraud and tax evasion involving the imports of aluminium from China into the EU.

At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Naples and Venice (Italy), the Italian Financial Police (Guardia di Finanza) in Naples and Caserta executed a seizure order targeting assets worth more than €32 million in an investigation into a large-scale VAT carousel fraud in...