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Czechia: EPPO probes fraud involving road cleaning and marketing services
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...
Germany: EPPO conducts searches in fraud probe into agricultural funds for organic fennel cultivation
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...
Italy: Embezzlement of EU funds by public school principal – new findings revealed
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...
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