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The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Munich (Germany) has secured another conviction in the EPPO investigation cluster Midas, a large-scale VAT fraud case spanning 17 countries and involving an estimated damage of €195 million. This is the fourth person to be convicted.

At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Katowice (Poland), police officers arrested six suspects and carried out dozens of searches in connection with an investigation into members of a religious group suspected of fraudulently selling food destined for refugees and most deprived persons, funded by the EU. 

At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Turin (Italy), the Italian Financial Police (Guardia di Finanza) of Biella carried out searches last week (17 July), in an investigation into suspected fraud involving funds from the EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) for Italy.

The European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO) in Zagreb (Croatia) has opened an investigation into possible irregularities involving the public procurement procedure for the construction of a €1.2 million waste sorting plant in the city of Mali Lošinj, co-financed by the EU. 

A company and two of its legal representatives were convicted for a €3.8 million subsidy fraud involving agricultural funds, in the first verdict delivered after a trial by Spanish courts, following an investigation by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Madrid (Spain).

Today, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Bratislava (Slovakia) filed an indictment at the Specialised Criminal Court against one individual and one company, for fraud involving EU regional funds to build and manage a karting centre. 

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Zagreb (Croatia) has filed an indictment against the owner of a nursery school, the school pedagogue and the nursery school itself for subsidy fraud and document forgery, involving EU social funds.

At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Madrid (Spain), eight presumed members of a criminal network, including three suspected ringleaders, were detained yesterday for their alleged involvement in a €68 million VAT fraud scheme linked to imported alcohol from several EU Member States. 

Following a large-scale VAT fraud investigation led by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Cologne (Germany), code-named ´Huracán´, one individual was convicted this week by the Regional Court in Düsseldorf for VAT fraud. This is the ninth person to be convicted.