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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.

At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Madrid (Spain), 13 searches were conducted and 24 people were arrested this week, in a probe into a €25 million VAT fraud orchestrated by an organised crime group with a reach extending to Latin America.

Two people have been arrested in an investigation into a suspected €200 000 funding fraud, led by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Vilnius (Lithuania).

On 12 October, following an investigation led by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Vilnius (Lithuania), the District Court of Vilnius convicted six individuals and one company of document forgery, fraudulent account management and high value fraud.

The European Chief Prosecutor, Laura Codruța Kövesi, and the Chief Prosecutor of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Milanko Kajganić, today signed a working arrangement between the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) and the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Two people have been arrested this week at the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Athens (Greece) and Cologne (Germany) and 42 searches were carried out in those countries as part of an investigation into a suspected cross border organised crime group. The group is understood to have orchestrated a €30.7 million VAT fraud involving small electronic devices.

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) filed an indictment today at the County Court in Zagreb (Croatia), against three individuals and two companies, for two criminal offences of subsidy fraud and forgery of documents, in connection with a project involving stone products.

Last week (7 November), the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Munich carried out more than 200 searches in several locations in Germany and the Netherlands, during an operation against an alleged customs and VAT fraud ring understood to have caused damage of over €200 million in evaded tax and customs duties.