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At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Iași (Romania), seven house searches were carried out yesterday, in a probe into a €2 million fraud involving IT projects. Two people were detained, including the main suspect, and another four were placed under judicial control.

Three people have pleaded guilty to subsidy and procurement fraud, in an investigation led by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Zlín (Czechia) into the suspected manipulation of a public contract at the National History Museum in Olomouc. One of the defendants also pleaded guilty to charges of passive corruption and money laundering.

Two individuals and one association were convicted yesterday by the Regional Court in Brno (Czechia), for subsidy fraud involving the construction of social housing for the elderly, following an investigation by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Zlín.

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Iași (Romania) brought charges today against six individuals and six companies for aggravated fraud and money laundering, in an investigation into a suspected criminal organisation that obtained €4 million in EU funds for medical and IT research.

At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Naples (Italy), over €520 000 in assets have been seized, in an investigation into fraud involving EU agricultural funding aimed at supporting a wine producer’s conversion to organic farming.

In the context of a large-scale investigation led by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Turin (Italy), several house searches, arrests and seizures took place today, in a probe into an alleged criminal organisation suspected of a VAT fraud involving tyres.

At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Palermo (Italy), a freezing order was executed yesterday against a farmer suspected of agricultural funding fraud, with an estimated damage of €161 000.

A delegation from the Polish Ministry of Justice is visiting the Central Office of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office in Luxembourg today and tomorrow to discuss Poland's future participation in the EPPO and gain legal, operational and administrative insights into our work and organisation.

On 17 January 2024, a working arrangement was signed between the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) and France’s Treasury and its Interministerial Anti-Fraud Coordination Mission (MICAF – Mission interministérielle de coordination anti-fraude).