The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Munich (Germany) has secured two further convictions in an investigation into a large-scale VAT fraud involving fraudulent VoIP, with an estimated damage of €100 million. 

Last week, a man was convicted of VAT fraud in the first verdict in a Dutch court in a case investigated and prosecuted by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Rotterdam (the Netherlands).

A suspected ringleader in the cross-border investigation into a €520 million VAT fraud scheme, code-named ‘Moby Dick’, has turned himself in and was detained yesterday in Milan (Italy) at the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Milan and Palermo. The individual had evaded arrest in Prague (Czechia) in November 2024, prior to an action targeting the international criminal ring, carried out by the EPPO, and had been at large for six months.

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Bologna, Naples and Rome (Italy) today seized assets worth €20 million, including a tourism resort and over 150 properties, following an investigation code-named ‘Fuel family’ into a criminal gang alleged to have imported fuel to the Italian market while systematically evading VAT.  

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Munich (Germany) has secured another conviction in an investigation into a large-scale VAT fraud involving the sales of Voice over IP (VoIP), with an estimated damage of €100 million. This is the third conviction in this investigation into a criminal network dedicated to fraudulent trading of VoIP, code-named Cuba. 

Three perpetrators of a €24 million VAT fraud involving simulated exports of cars were convicted yesterday by the Hagen District Court in Germany, following an investigation carried out by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Cologne. 

At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Munich (Germany), three suspects have been arrested, and multiple searches were carried out in Germany, Bulgaria, and Poland this week (1 April), in an ongoing investigation into a €50 million VAT fraud scheme involving the trade of electronic goods. 

Two ringleaders of an international criminal group were convicted on Friday, 28 March 2025, at the Regional Court of Dusseldorf (Germany) for a multi-million VAT fraud, following an investigation by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Hamburg, code-named Goliath. 

Two suspects were arrested yesterday, at the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Turin, for their alleged involvement in a VAT carrousel scheme involving the sales of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services. An order to freeze assets for the amount of €64.04 million was executed.

In an investigation into a complex VAT fraud on imported fuels, led by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office in Bologna (Italy), the Modena Italian Financial Police (Guardia di Finanza) seized assets worth €5 million in the provinces of Modena and Ravenna this month.