Cases

An organized criminal group utilizing unqualified door-to-door sales agents defrauded the French national housing agency of €1.13 million by submitting forged energy audit applications under the EU-backed MaPrimeRénov’ scheme.

A member of Corsican organized crime fraudulently claimed and received Common Agricultural Policy subsidies for active farming operations while simultaneously incarcerated in a prison cell.

A sprawling network of 26 individuals was convicted for creating fictitious young farmers to illegally draw down EU agricultural support funds, resulting in a €500,000 localized fraud designed to enrich the hidden orchestrators.

An organized group attempted to secure €2.6 million in green innovation funds by forging procurement documents and artificially inflating equipment costs for the production of biodegradable cling film.

The manager of a non-profit childcare association fraudulently obtained European Social Fund grants by actively concealing the organization’s heavy debts to national tax and social security authorities.

A Chinese national operating a German company utilized a shadow corporation in Myanmar to mask the true origin of aluminium foil products, systematically evading EU anti-dumping tariffs designed to protect domestic manufacturing.

An entrepreneur fraudulently secured a million-euro innovation grant by forging co-financing documents and faking the purchase of IT infrastructure, subsequently using the funds to pay off pre-existing corporate debts.

The administrators of a consortium company entirely misappropriated €6.4 million in EU environmental transition funds meant for building liquefied natural gas (LNG) maritime infrastructure, diverting the capital to personal expenses.

The initial wave of convictions in the colossal “Moby Dick” investigation resulted in twenty individuals being sentenced to over 70 years in prison for orchestrating a pan-European VAT fraud network involving over a billion euros in fictitious invoices.

The managers of a French importing company deliberately undervalued a luxury high-speed boat imported from the United States, utilizing forged documentation to evade substantial European customs duties.