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. 

Keynote speech of the European Chief Prosecutor, Laura Kövesi, at the Policy Forum "Anti-corruption, Democratic Resilience and Economic Security" in Sofia, Bulgaria - 9 November 2023

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Brussels (Belgium) filed two separate indictments at the Court of Antwerp yesterday, for the evasion of customs duties on the importation of electric bicycles (e-bikes) from China.

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) has initiated an investigation against 29 Croatian citizens, detained today at the EPPO’s request, and one company, for suspected subsidy and procurement fraud at the Faculty of Geodesy of the University of Zagreb (Croatia).

At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Milan (Italy), two people have been arrested by the Italian Financial Police (Guardia di Finanza) in an investigation into a large VAT fraud scheme, with estimated damage of approximately €50 million.