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At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO), the Dutch Fiscal Information and Investigation Service (FIOD) today conducted searches in the Netherlands and seized assets, in an investigation into a suspected VAT carousel fraud involving consumer electronics.
Keynote speech of the European Chief Prosecutor, Laura Kövesi, at the Policy Forum "Anti-corruption, Democratic Resilience and Economic Security" in Sofia, Bulgaria - 9 November 2023
As part of two ongoing investigations into a suspected €15 million fraud, led by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Bucharest (Romania), 38 house searches were carried out on 7 November 2023.
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) has initiated an investigation against 29 Croatian citizens, detained today at the EPPO’s request, and one company, for suspected subsidy and procurement fraud at the Faculty of Geodesy of the University of Zagreb (Croatia).
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Brussels (Belgium) filed two separate indictments at the Court of Antwerp yesterday, for the evasion of customs duties on the importation of electric bicycles (e-bikes) from China.
On 31 October 2023, the Court of First Instance of Athens (Greece) delivered its verdict in a subsidy fraud case involving livestock, investigated and prosecuted by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO).
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Riga (Latvia), in cooperation with Latvia’s Corruption Prevention and Combating Bureau (KNAB), carried out searches and detained three people today, in a probe into possible fraud involving state officials from the Municipality of Valka.
At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Milan (Italy), two people have been arrested by the Italian Financial Police (Guardia di Finanza) in an investigation into a large VAT fraud scheme, with estimated damage of approximately €50 million. The pre-trial detention of the two individuals was ordered by the judge for preliminary investigations of the Tribunal of Busto Arsizio.
A police officer posted at a refugee centre was convicted of forgery last week, in the first verdict in Greek courts of a case investigated and prosecuted by the European Public Prosecutor Office’s (EPPO) in Athens (Greece).
Last week (26 October), the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Prague (Czechia), in cooperation with the Czech Police’s National Organized Crime Agency, brought charges against seven individuals and three companies for evading taxes and for participating in an organised crime group. This followed an action day, on which several searches and seizures were carried out, and three of the individuals were arrested.