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Today, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Hamburg (Germany) secured the conviction of two members of a criminal organisation responsible for a vast intra-community VAT fraud scheme involving Hawala money laundering, following an investigation code-named Goliath.

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Vilnius (Lithuania) has charged twelve individuals in an investigation into suspected fraud and document forgery involving two EU-funded projects.

(Luxembourg, 22 October 2026) – At the request of the EPPO in Bratislava (Slovakia), searches and investigative measures were conducted on Tuesday and Wednesday in Slovakia, in an investigation into a suspected customs fraud scheme to import textiles and footwear from China.

At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Palermo (Italy), officers from the Carabinieri Command for Agri-food Protection’s EU Fraud Section in Rome today executed personal precautionary measures against ten suspects.

The EPPO in Sofia (Bulgaria) has filed an indictment at the Sofia City Court against the mayor of Petrich, a municipality at the border with Greece, accused of fraud involving the reconstruction of a building to convert it into a cultural heritage museum under an EU-funded project.

At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Munich (Germany), five suspects were arrested this week in an investigation into a €114 million VAT fraud linked to investigation Midas. Three were arrested in Cyprus, one in Germany and one in Italy.

The EPPO in Bucharest (Romania) filed an indictment on Wednesday at the Bucharest Tribunal against five individuals, accused of having established a criminal group with the aim of defrauding public procurement procedures in Romanian municipalities, benefiting from EU funding.

The president of an association of beekeepers in Canary Islands was found guilty of subsidy fraud, following an indictment by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Madrid (Spain).

The Supreme Court of Lithuania has upheld the convictions of two former Lithuanian customs officers, as well as two Belarusian citizens, for the smuggling of large quantities of cigarettes from Belarus, confirming the lower court’s judgement and dismissing the defendants’ appeals.

At the request of the EPPO in Palermo (Italy), a judge has ordered precautionary measures against seven individuals suspected of participating in a criminal association involved in corruption and the steering of public contracts in Syracuse, including an EU-funded project to expand accommodation.