(Luxembourg, 12 September 2023) – The European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO) confirms that this morning our office in Bucharest, in cooperation with the General Directorate Anticorruption (Direcția Generală Anticorupție) and the National institute of Forensics (Institutul Național de Criminalistică), carried out searches at the General Inspectorate of Aviation within the Romanian Ministry of Interior, in an ongoing investigation concerning public procurement financed under the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF).
The investigation is still ongoing and we cannot give any other information at this stage.
The EPPO is the independent public prosecution office of the European Union. It is responsible for investigating, prosecuting and bringing to judgment crimes against the financial interests of the EU.