European Public Prosecutor's Office

The minister also aimed to secure a long-term LNG contract to replace Russian gas before the EU's planned import ban in fall 2027.

[upbeat music] The European Public Prosecutor's Office in Bratislava filed charges against one person over alleged fraud involving an EU-funded forestry development project.

According to investigators, the accused provided false information to obtain nearly €193,000 in funding for forestry equipment.

The suspect allegedly submitted false contracts to prove eligibility for the grant, despite the company having no actual revenue at the time.

Cross-border commerce creates economic opportunities but also allows sophisticated financial crime networks to operate across multiple jurisdictions, requiring equally coordinated international enforcement.

For further information, see European Public Prosecutor's Office, Guarda Nacional Republicana, and Observador.

Azerbaijan strengthens Central Asian ties through new regional agreements.

Azerbaijan and five Central Asian countries have signed two cooperation documents at a summit in Turkmenistan, strengthening a diplomatic framework linking the Caspian region.

Okay, let's return to my conversation with Shami Chakrabarti.

Matthew Caruana Galizia, who you've met, has called for European institutions to do more to tackle culture of corruption, including consideration of the European Public Prosecutor's Office.

What would have to happen before you would say recommendations and dialogue have failed and the EU or, or the, the Council of Europe needs to move to stronger measures? What could those stronger measures potentially look like? And is there a gap between the European institutions' ability to, to do anything about these rule of law problems, uh, and their ability to compel a member state to, to actually fix them?

I, I don't want to be premature because I'm an optimist, and I'm going into this project optimistically, particularly as the, as the Maltese government have agreed to meet this week.

Uh, I guess this broke yesterday, September 29th, and the sheer scale makes this crazy.

So the European Public Prosecutor's Office announced a massive operation spanning nineteen countries involving approximately seventeen seventy, uh, six off of our, uh, creation here in seventeen seventy-six here in the U.S. [clicks tongue] Police, seventeen seventy police, so one thousand seven hundred and seventy, sorry, uh, police, customs, and tax officers.

Uh, au- authorities conducted more than a hundred and sixty searches and seizures.

Seven people were arrested and the suspected scheme is super simple.