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‘The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) is the new independent public prosecution office of the European Union. It is responsible for investigating, prosecuting and bringing to judgment crimes against the financial interests of the EU. These include several types of fraud, VAT fraud with damages above 10 million euro, money laundering, corruption, etc.” Source; EPPO

21 December 2023EU Court of Justice confirms EPPO’s approach to faster and more efficient cross-border investigations Today, the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union issued its judgment in Case C-281/22, G. K. e.a. (Parquet européen). This is the first case in which a national court (the Oberlandesgericht Wien/Higher Regional Court of Vienna, Austria) requested a preliminary ruling from the Court of Justice to interpret provisions of Council Regulation (EU) 1017/1939

18 December 2023Statement regarding the legislative amendments proposed by the Slovak governmentToday, the European Chief Prosecutor addressed a letter to the European Commission in line with Recitals 9, 16 and 17 of Regulation (EU) 2020/2092 of 16 December 2020 on a general regime of conditionality for the protection of the budget of the European Union (Conditionality Regulation), pointing at recent legislative amendments proposed by the Slovak government concerning the Criminal Procedure Code, the Criminal Code, the Act on the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Act on the Protection o

18 December 2023Croatia: EPPO files indictment against one person for agricultural subsidy fraud and document forgery Today, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Zagreb (Croatia) filed an indictment at Zagreb’s County Court against one Croatian citizen, for subsidy fraud and forgery of documents.According to the evidence, the accused submitted, between 2018 and 2021, two requests in the name of a family farm to obtain grants from Croatia’s Rural Development Programme.

30 November 2023Eight newly appointed European Prosecutors take oath before Court of Justice of the EUToday, at the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg, eight European Prosecutors gave the solemn undertaking to comply with the obligations arising from their duties. They were recently appointed to the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) by the Council of the EU, and replace – for a non-renewable mandate of six years – the eight European Prosecutors who finished their three-year mandates at the end of July 2023.

27 November 2023Investigation Goliath: EPPO targets international ring suspected of €85 million VAT fraudOn 22 November 2023, 59 searches and other investigative measures were carried out in eight countries, in an action targeting criminal groups under investigation for an €85 million VAT fraud, led by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Hamburg (Germany). One of the alleged ringleaders of the criminal groups under investigation was arrested.

17 November 2023Two arrests in Greece and Germany in an EPPO investigation into €30.7 million VAT 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.