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The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) has conducted searches in eight countries and detained 62 suspects in a probe against criminal organisations suspected of operating a carousel VAT fraud selling mobile phones and electronic devices.
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.
A company and its director were found guilty of declaring salary costs already covered by national subsidies as costs under an EU-funded project, following an indictment by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Madrid (Spain).
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