At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Palermo (Italy), the Italian Financial Police (Guardia di Finanza) seized €80 000, in an investigation into agricultural funding fraud.

On 12 September 2023, the European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO) in Riga (Latvia), in cooperation with the Corruption Prevention and Combating Bureau (KNAB), carried out searches in 20 locations, in a probe into possible fraud involving State officials of the municipality of Valmiera.

The European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO) confirms that this morning our office in Bucharest, in cooperation with the General Directorate Anticorruption (Direcția Generală Anticorupție) and the National institute of Forensics (Institutul Național de Criminalistică), carried out searches at the General Inspectorate of Aviation within the Romanian Ministry of Interior, in an ongoing investigation concerning public procurement financ

On 1 September 2023, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) filed an indictment in the Riga City Court (Latvia) against two individuals and one company, for fraud involving a project for the reconstruction of drainage systems, co-funded by the EU.

This week, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Bucharest referred a criminal case to the Bucharest Tribunal, where a former president of Dinamo București football club was indicted for fraud. This follows house searches in Romania and France in May this year, in an investigation into a €30 million fraud involving EU and national funds.

Following the public interest raised by the press conference held today by Mayor of Varna (Bulgaria),  Mr Ivan Portnih, the EPPO would like to emphasise that it does not comment on statements made by political representatives in relation to our investigations.

The European Chief Prosecutor, Laura Codruța Kövesi, and the Minister of Justice of the Kingdom of Denmark, Peter Hummelgaard, signed a working arrangement on the cooperation between the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) and the Ministry of Justice of the Kingdom of Denmark.

Last week, on 22 August 2023, at the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Rome, the Italian Financial Police (Guardia di Finanza) seized €1 million, in an investigation into an NGO suspected of embezzling EU tourism funding.

In June 2023, two individuals were convicted by the Regional Court in České Budějovice (Czechia) of subsidy fraud, in an investigation led by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in České Budějovice (Czechia). In a judgment that entered legal force this week, the defendants were found to have unlawfully obtained €125 000 in EU funds for a social entrepreneurship project.

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Sofia (Bulgaria) carried out searches yesterday at numerous locations, in an investigation into two projects for the modernisation of the railway infrastructure, worth over €241 million in EU financing.