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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.
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.
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).
A company and its director were found guilty of declaring salary costs already covered by national subsidies as costs under an EU-funded project, following an indictment by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Madrid (Spain).
At the request of the EPPO in Paris (France), bank accounts have been frozen and real estate seized in the island of Réunion, with a combined value of up to €4 million, as part of an investigation into possible fraud involving EU agricultural subsidies in France’s outermost regions.
Today, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Bratislava (Slovakia) filed an indictment at the Slovak Specialised Criminal Court against one individual for fraud involving a project to develop forest areas, co-funded by the EU.
An individual was convicted of misappropriating EU funds granted to a cooperative for unemployed people, following an indictment by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Madrid (Spain).
At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Turin (Italy), eight suspects have been placed today in pre-trial detention and three under house arrest, in an investigation targeting an organised crime group suspected of large-scale VAT fraud in the trade of plastics products.
Today, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Ostrava (Czechia) has indicted four individuals and proposed to Prague’s Municipal Court plea bargains against four more suspects for their involvement in a large-scale VAT fraud scheme related to the trade of electronic goods.
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) has conducted searches in eight countries and detained 62 suspects in a probe against criminal organisations suspected of operating a carousel VAT fraud selling mobile phones and electronic devices.