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At the request of the EPPO in Palermo (Italy), a judge has ordered precautionary measures against seven individuals suspected of participating in a criminal association involved in corruption and the steering of public contracts in Syracuse, including an EU-funded project to expand accommodation.
The Supreme Court of Lithuania has upheld the convictions of two former Lithuanian customs officers, as well as two Belarusian citizens, for the smuggling of large quantities of cigarettes from Belarus, confirming the lower court’s judgement and dismissing the defendants’ appeals.
The president of an association of beekeepers in Canary Islands was found guilty of subsidy fraud, following an indictment by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Madrid (Spain).
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