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On Monday (4 December), the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Luxembourg City and Frankfurt am Main led searches in Luxembourg and Germany, in an action targeting a criminal group suspected of a VAT fraud. In addition, 17 bank accounts, cash, gold and cryptocurrencies have been seized.
At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Palermo (Italy), the Anti-Mafia Investigative Directorate (Direzione Investigativa Antimafia) of Catania has seized the farmhouse of a suspect under investigation for agricultural funding fraud and ties to organised crime.
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Porto (Portugal) filed an indictment today against 12 suspects and 15 companies, following an investigation into a massive intra-community VAT fraud scheme extending to over 30 countries, code-named Admiral. This is the first indictment issued under
Following an investigation by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Palermo and Rome (Italy), coercive measures were decreed today against three aquaculture producers, suspected of committing fraud involving EU maritime and fisheries funds, with an estimated damage of €4.5 million.
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) filed an indictment today at the Regional Court of Ostrava (Czechia) against an entrepreneur, for subsidy fraud and money laundering. He is accused of using EU funds allocated to an IT project to pay his own debts.
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Tallinn (Estonia) led searches yesterday at several locations, in a probe into a suspected fraud involving a project to renovate street lighting in the municipality of Põltsamaa.
On Tuesday, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Cluj-Napoca (Romania) carried out searches at the offices of the Municipality of Deda and in other locations, in a probe into a suspected fraud involving programmes for the inclusion of Roma communities, co-funded by the EU.
Today, at the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg, eight European Prosecutors gave the solemn undertaking to comply with the obligations arising from their duties. They were recently appointed to the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) by the Council of the EU, and replace – for a non-renewable mandate of six years – the eight European Prosecutors who finished their three-year mandates at the end of July 2023.
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Sofia (Bulgaria) carried out searches on 23 November 2023, in an investigation into potential misuse of EU funds, involving a project for the repair and reconstruction of a municipal road network in the Boychinovtsi Municipality.
On 22 November 2023, 59 searches and other investigative measures were carried out in eight countries, in an action targeting criminal groups under investigation for an €85 million VAT fraud, led by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Hamburg (Germany). One of the alleged ringleaders of the criminal groups under investigation was arrested.