EU prosecutors investigate Croatia over suspected farm fund fraud

[EPPO]

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) has launched a transgression probe into imaginable corruption and fraud involving European Union cultivation funds successful Croatia, ‌it has said.

Police were gathering grounds successful respective counties successful cardinal Croatia, it said successful a statement.

The probe relates to the activities of Croatian nationals suspected of maltreatment of bureau and authority, receiving and ⁠offering bribes, subsidy fraud and forgery of documents arsenic portion of a transgression relation and to the detriment of the EU’s fiscal interests, the EPPO said.

It provided nary further details successful bid not to endanger the result of the ongoing proceedings.

Croatia’s agriculture ministry did not instantly remark connected the EPPO’s announcement.

The probe comes connected the ‌heels ⁠of a ungraded successful Greece implicit alleged fraud likewise related to EU workplace subsidies that has shaken the centre-right authorities successful caller months.

Last year, European prosecutors charged dozens of Greek stockbreeders with ⁠faking ownership of pastureland to assertion millions of euros successful EU subsidies, allegedly with the assistance of state employees and blimpish ⁠politicians.

The matter has prompted ministerial resignations, led the EU past year to enforce a grounds good connected Greece ⁠for mismanagement of the subsidies and led the Greek parliament to assistance the immunity of 13 implicated lawmakers. [Reuters]