At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Madrid (Spain), 13 searches were conducted and 24 people were arrested this week, in a probe into a €25 million VAT fraud orchestrated by an organised crime group with a reach extending to Latin America.

Two people have been arrested in an investigation into a suspected €200 000 funding fraud, led by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Vilnius (Lithuania).

The European Chief Prosecutor, Laura Codruța Kövesi, and the Chief Prosecutor of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Milanko Kajganić, today signed a working arrangement between the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) and the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

On 12 October, following an investigation led by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Vilnius (Lithuania), the District Court of Vilnius convicted six individuals and one company of document forgery, fraudulent account management and high value fraud.

Two people have been arrested this week at the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Athens (Greece) and Cologne (Germany) and 42 searches were carried out in those countries as part of an investigation into a suspected cross border organised crime group. The group is understood to have orchestrated a €30.7 million VAT fraud involving small electronic devices.

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) filed an indictment today at the County Court in Zagreb (Croatia), against three individuals and two companies, for two criminal offences of subsidy fraud and forgery of documents, in connection with a project involving stone products.

At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Palermo (Italy), coercive measures were decreed yesterday against seven suspects, in an investigation into agricultural funding fraud, with estimated damage of over €900 000.

Last week (7 November), the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Munich carried out more than 200 searches in several locations in Germany and the Netherlands, during an operation against an alleged customs and VAT fraud ring understood to have caused damage of over €200 million in evaded tax and customs duties.

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.

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.