Category: Anti-Fraud (OLAF)
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Salvage Car Fraud Charges Put Nine Suspects Before German Judges
Berlin: The European Public Prosecutor’s Office has charged nine suspects in Germany in a salvage…
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Auditors Find Gaps in EU Anti-Fraud Data Mining Across Capitals
Ostrava: EU anti-fraud data mining is supposed to work by pattern rather than by tip-off,…
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Five Years On the EPPO Gets Its First Independent Report Card
Luxembourg: The European Commission published its first ever EPPO evaluation on 21 September 2026, five…
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Twin Evaluations Weigh OLAF and the EPPO Against Their Mandates
Luxembourg: The building on Rue Erasme that houses the European Public Prosecutor’s Office has been…
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Suspended Payments Test Whether Conflict Rules Have Any Teeth
Olomouc: The fields and processing plants of central Moravia carry a share of the largest…
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Prosecutors Indict Six Over a Briquette Plant Built on Paper
Zagreb: The sums in the indictment filed this week are, by the standards of European…
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Fraud Cases Fell While the Money at Stake Rose Nearly 13 Percent
Timișoara: Cohesion projects in western Romania, like those in every region drawing on Union funds,…
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Waste Trafficking Became the Quiet Half of Europe’s Fraud Work
Prato: Anyone reading the European Anti-Fraud Office’s casework from the first half of 2026 finds…
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Fifteen Grant Applications and Not One Real Nursery Lease
Katowice: Prosecutors here brought two people before the courts on 10 September over an attempt…
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Customs Fraud Charges Land in Germany Over Wrecked Cars
Customs fraud rarely arrives with a number as blunt as this one. The European Public…
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Cheap Wireless Earbuds Powered a VAT Carousel Worth Twenty Million
Plzeň: Investigators who unpicked this scheme found no exotic instrument and no offshore trust. They…
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Prosecutors Want Prison for a Nursery Funding Scheme in Poland
Katowice: The European Public Prosecutor’s Office filed an indictment at the Circuit Court here on…
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Auditors Found 615 Million Owed and Just 23 Million Recovered
Košice: A recommendation to recover money is not the same thing as money arriving back…
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Prosecutors Count 512 Recovery Fund Cases and 5 Billion Lost
Hamburg: Investigators from the European Public Prosecutor’s Office searched premises in the northern German city…
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Fraud Investigators Flagged 597 Million and Now Wait on Capitals
Ljubljana: The European Anti-Fraud Office told national and EU authorities to claw back 597 million…
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Prosecutors Chase Carousel Fraud Across Nine Countries at Once
Katowice: Silesian warehouses have featured in more than one European fraud file this year, usually…
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EU Fraud Recovery Runs Through Courts OLAF Cannot Command
Recommending that money comes back is not the same as getting it back, and EU…
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Fraud Investigators Await a Reform Promised Before the Year Ends
Luxembourg: The European Public Prosecutor’s Office occupies a building designed for an institution that did…
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Hungary Joins the Prosecutor It Spent Five Years Refusing
Budapest: For five years Hungary stayed outside the office that investigates fraud against the European…
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Anti-Fraud Reform Remains a White Paper Fourteen Months Later
Brussels: The European Commission’s anti-fraud overhaul still exists only as a White Paper, fourteen months…
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Anti-Fraud Reform Is Promised for 2026 With One Quarter Left
The anti-fraud architecture that guards the EU budget has spent fourteen months under review, and…
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Counterfeit Pouches Poured Out of a Kaunas Factory Until August
Kaunas: Lithuanian officers walked into an industrial unit in early August and found a production…
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Prosecutors Trace Seven Million Through Romanian IT Contracts
Bucharest: Investigators from the European Public Prosecutor’s Office carried out nineteen searches in the Romanian…
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VAT Fraud on Earbuds Ends With Five Arrests in Czechia
VAT fraud built on wireless earbuds sounds like a small crime until the arithmetic arrives.…