A (not so) brief ‘criminal’ history of the ECB – POLITICO
Racketeering Rimšēvičs: Currently fighting to get his prison sentence overruled, former Latvian central bank chief Ilmārs Rimšēvičs was found guilty last...
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EU prosecutors threaten to sue Commission in spending spat – POLITICO
Kövesi’s letter was shared in early April with three senior officials from the Commission, according to the document obtained by...
How dirty Russian money taught Latvia to get serious on sanctions – POLITICO
Centralization across the EU may sound good on paper, but Laura Aus, deputy head of the Estonian Financial Intelligence Unit,...
Greek opposition seizes on EU funds fraud allegations – POLITICO
“The government, even in conditions of crisis such as the pandemic … has always acted taking into account the protection...
Londongrad forever? Why the UK may never seize Russian assets – POLITICO
LONDON ― In politics, reality rarely matches rhetoric. And the reality is Britain will probably never seize Russia’s money. Plenty...
Fraud-busters swoop on Greek contracts involving €2.5B of EU recovery funds – POLITICO
Alleged bid-rigging The complaint by European Dynamics was transferred to OLAF, which sent it to the EPPO for investigation for...
UAE set to be removed from money laundering ‘gray list’ – POLITICO
FATF placed UAE on the gray list in March 2022, citing serious deficiencies in the Gulf state's measures against sanctions evasion, terror financing and...
Hamburg bank suspected as ‘financial hub’ for Iranian terror – POLITICO
Bafin has yet to complete its investigation into Varengold, and so far no individuals from the bank have been accused...
As drug kingpins shift to stealing EU cash, Europe’s top prosecutor wants to fight back – POLITICO
The train accident in Greece still affecting procedure today |Konstantinos Tsakalidis/SOOC/AFP via Getty Images “There is a constitutional provision that...
EU Parliament strips Eva Kaili of immunity in €150K fraud case – POLITICO
As POLITICO first reported last year, Kaili is accused of misusing her official budget by orchestrating a fake jobs and...
