At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Palermo (Italy), the Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate (Direzione Investigativa Antimafia) has seized assets of a farmer suspected of agricultural funding fraud and ties to organised crime.

Following yesterday’s arrests and the questioning of the suspects, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Zagreb (Croatia) has launched an investigation against four persons and one company for subsidy fraud and money laundering.

Today, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Zagreb (Croatia) is conducting urgent evidence-collecting activities, in cooperation with the Dubrovnik-Neretva County Police Administration against four persons. Currently, three people have been arrested. 

At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Palermo (Italy), the Italian Financial Police (Guardia di Finanza) of  Messina have executed a seizure order against a farm suspected of agricultural funding fraud, with an estimated damage of €160 000.

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.