At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Frankfurt (Germany), eight searches were carried out and one individual was arrested yesterday on suspicion of orchestrating a €18 million VAT carousel fraud through the sale of small electronic goods. 

At the request of the European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO) in Warsaw (Poland), nine suspects were detained yesterday in an investigation into suspected subsidy fraud and attempted money laundering involving childcare institutions in Gdynia and Gdańsk.

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Ljubljana (Slovenia) has filed an indictment at the District Court in Maribor against five companies and their representatives for suspected subsidy fraud involving funds from the EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), intended to improve the working conditions of their employees with disabilities.

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Zagreb (Croatia) has initiated an investigation against 21 Croatian citizens, including one public official and a former public official, who were arrested yesterday in a probe into possible corruption and subsidy fraud involving subsidies from the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) and the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF).

At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Zagreb (Croatia), evidence-gathering activities are being carried out today in several counties, in an investigation into possible corruption and fraud involving EU agricultural funds.

At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Venice (Italy), the Italian Financial Police (Guardia di Finanza) of Venice arrested last week an Italian businessman residing in Dubai, suspected of laundering and reinvesting proceeds stemming from a large-scale VAT carousel fraud scheme.

Today, in accordance with the procedures laid down by the EPPO Regulation and the Polish national law, the European Chief Prosecutor requested to the Polish Parliament (Sejm) the lifting of immunity of one active Member of Parliament for suspected trading in influence in an investigation of European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Katowice, linked to the EU funded modernisation of tram infrastructure in the Upper Silesian-Zagłębie Metropolis.

At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office in Prague (Czechia), the Czech Police’s National Organised Crime Agency (NCOZ) detained 12 persons and carried out 42 searches in the regions of Prague, Central Bohemia and South Moravia.

In an investigation led by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Munich (Germany), more than 20 house searches were carried out yesterday in the federal states of Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany), as well as in Poland, in a probe into suspected money laundering and participation in organised crime.

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Vilnius (Lithuania) has secured the conviction of four individuals in a case of attempted subsidy fraud, preventing the unlawful disbursement of nearly €2.6 million in EU funds.