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.

In a probe led by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Madrid (Spain), law enforcement authorities have dismantled a transnational criminal network involved in the sale of luxury cars while evading VAT. The estimated damage in Spain alone amounts to €17 million. 

Yesterday, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Athens (Greece) carried out searches in several locations, in a probe into a suspected VAT carousel fraud uncovered during investigation Admiral, with an estimated damage of €38 million. 

At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Munich (Germany), two suspects were arrested today in an investigation into a €19 million cross-border VAT carousel fraud involving the sales of Voice over IP (VoIP).

On 13 and 14 November 2024, in an investigation led by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Paris (France), searches and witness interviews were carried out in Greece, in a probe into fraudulent imports of textiles, garments and fashion items from China into the EU, via the Piraeus Port of Athens, with the French market as the final destination. The fraud scheme under investigation caused an estimated damage of over €5.2 million in unpaid customs duties an

In an investigation led by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Milan and Palermo (Italy), code-named 'Moby Dick', detention orders are being executed against 43 suspects. The EPPO is probing a €520 million VAT fraud, with heavy involvement of several mafia groups. 

A coordinated sting by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Bologna and Milan (Italy) today dismantled a criminal gang, alleged to have evaded the payment of €113 million in VAT, while using a Chinese underground banking network for money laundering.

At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Milan and Rome (Italy), the judge for preliminary investigations at the Court of Latina issued a freezing order of €28.8 million, in an investigation into a €40 million VAT fraud involving airpods.