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The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Sofia (Bulgaria) has formally accused the former mayor and the ex-governor of Varna, as well as two public officials from the Executive Agency Maritime Administration, in an investigation into possible fraud, reported by OLAF, involving the reconstruction of a fishing port. 

At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Bologna (Italy), two new freezing orders totalling €12.3 million were granted against suspects of VAT fraud relating to the illegal importation of fabric from China. 

At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Bologna (Italy), two new freezing orders totalling €12.3 million were granted against suspects of VAT fraud relating to the illegal importation of fabric from China. 

At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Zagreb (Croatia), four individuals were arrested today by the Krapinsko Zagorska County Police Administration on the suspicion of abuse of office and power and subsidy fraud.

On behalf of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Berlin (Germany), the State Criminal Police Office (Landeskriminalamt Brandenburg) of Brandenburg is carrying out searches in several locations today, in an investigation into an entrepreneur understood to have illegally obtained EU agricultural funds to promote the cultivation of fennel in organic farming.

At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office in Ostrava (Czechia), the Czech Police’s National Centre Against Organised Crime (Národní centrála proti organizovanému zločinu – NCOZ) arrested eight persons and carried out fourteen searches yesterday in the Moravian-Silesian region. This action is part of an investigation into procurement fraud, bribery, and subsidy fraud. 

At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Palermo (Italy), a freezing order exceeding €20 000 was executed last week against twelve public officials. The order, issued by the Palermo Court's judge for preliminary investigations, is part of an investigation into the embezzlement of EU funds for public school projects in a socially deprived area of Sicily.

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Zagreb (Croatia) has initiated an investigation against two Croatian citizens on suspicion of fraud involving agricultural subsidies. Both suspects were arrested yesterday at the EPPO's request, in the wake of investigative activities carried out in cooperation with the Primorsko-Goranska County Police Administration. 

The European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO) in Madrid (Spain) obtained a conviction in a case concerning a project for a new factory to produce animal feed, co-financed by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD).