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Investigation Emily: EPPO strikes against criminal network behind multimillion VAT fraud involving sales of luxury cars
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Berlin and Cologne (Germany) and Prague (Czechia) are leading an EU-wide strike against a suspected criminal organisation, believed to have orchestrated cross-border VAT fraud schemes with an estimated tax damage of over €103 million through the sale...
Customs and VAT fraud are reshaping the criminal ecosystem in the EU, with €45 billion in estimated damage uncovered by EPPO
At the end of 2025, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) was investigating 3 602 cases (an increase of 35% since 2024), with an overall estimated damage of €67.27 billion to the EU and national budgets, almost tripling the number from the previous year (€24.8 billion). Over two thirds of...
First convictions in investigation Moby Dick: 20 defendants sentenced to over 70 years in prison and assets worth approximately €40 million confiscated
Twenty individuals have been convicted to more than 70 years of imprisonment for organising and participating in a criminal association and money laundering, following an investigation by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Milan and Palermo (Italy). These are the first verdicts in...
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Solemn Undertaking, 30 November 2023, European Prosecutors for the Netherldans, Lithuania, European Chief Prosecutor Laura Codruța Kövesi, European Prosecutors for Romania, Cyprus, Deputy ECP Petr Klement 
EPPO operations room during an action day