The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Cluj-Napoca and (Romania) is carrying out searches today in several locations, including public institutions, in the county of Botoșani, in an investigation into a €160 000 fraud involving EU funds intended to boost the employability of young people.

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Iași (Romania) conducted eight searches today in the Galați county, in an investigation into a €1.7 million fraud involving projects for irrigation systems, funded by the EU.

At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Rome (Italy), the Italian Financial Police (Guardia di Finanza) of Bari is carrying out searches today, in an investigation into an €8.8 million fraud in the training sector. 

Given the extraordinary public interest in its investigation code-named 'Resilient Crime', the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) wishes to clarify some technical elements that have been subject to misinterpretation. 

This week (9 April), the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Paris (France) carried out searches and arrested four suspects in western France, in a probe into an alleged VAT fraud of around €60 million. More than €12.5 million were seized in assets, bank accounts and financial instruments in France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, alongside documents, data and media storage devices.

This week, an entrepreneur was fined by the Sofia District Court (Bulgaria) for attempted subsidy fraud and forgery of documents involving a car repair shop, following an investigation by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO). 

At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Palermo (Italy), a freezing order of €226 000 was executed today against three farmers suspected of misappropriation of EU agricultural funds and forgery of documents.

In an investigation led by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Bologna (Italy), the Italian Financial Police (Guardia di Finanza) of Bologna and Prato have executed a freezing order of €7.3 million on the bank accounts of a freight forwarding company suspected of VAT fraud relating to the illegal importation of fabric from China.

In the context of an international large-scale investigation led by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Venice (Italy), dozens of searches and seizures took place, and 22 arrests were made today in Italy, Austria, Romania and Slovakia, in a probe into an alleged criminal organisation suspected of defrauding €600 million from the EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) for Italy.

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Sofia (Bulgaria) has proposed to the Sofia District Court an administrative penalty for a farmer suspected of agricultural subsidy fraud and document forgery.