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The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Ljubljana (Slovenia) has filed an indictment at Ljubljana’s District Court against two individuals and one association, for subsidy fraud, abuse of position, and aiding and abetting. The suspects are alleged to have defrauded EU funds of almost €100 000.

Following a multimillion VAT fraud investigation led by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Berlin (Germany), five individuals were convicted yesterday (19 June) by the Berlin Regional Court for serious VAT fraud, commercial document forgery, and aiding and abetting tax fraud. Their criminal activities, which involved trading luxury cars and medical face masks as part of a criminal organisation, are estimated to have caused damage of around €52 million. 

Today, the Regional Court of Vilnius (Lithuania) convicted a former director of the National Food and Veterinary Risk Assessment Institute of Lithuania, accused of illegally acquiring €296 871 through the receipt of bribes, illegal enrichment and money laundering.

An investigation by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Bologna (Italy), code-named ‘Stop the Carousel’, has led to the arrest of three suspected ringleaders of a criminal organisation created to obtain funds from the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF). 

Yesterday (17 June), following an investigation led by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Bratislava (Slovakia), the Specialised Criminal Court convicted two individuals and one company of EU funding fraud.

At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office in Ostrava (Czechia), 15 searches were carried out on 11 and 12 June, in a probe into concert production companies suspected of several instances of subsidy fraud and tax evasion. 

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Graz (Austria) filed an indictment yesterday (13 June) against one suspect for subsidy fraud, following an investigation into a €200 000 project financed by the EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) for Austria.

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Zagreb (Croatia) is carrying out urgent evidence collecting activities in several Croatian counties, due to suspicions of subsidy fraud and document forgery.

At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Bologna (Italy), a freezing order of over €6.8 million, issued by the judge for preliminary investigations of the Court of Bologna, was executed last week (6 June) against four individuals and one company suspected of VAT fraud relating to the illegal importation of fabric from China.