The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (ERPO) in the Romanian city of Cluj-Napoca today conducted searches at several addresses in Braila County as part of an investigation into the fraud of an official and his family with agricultural funds in the amount of more than half a million euros, reports Agerpress.
According to an EPPO press release, searches are being carried out at the office of the civil servant involved in the case, three businesses and four residences.
The investigation concerns a civil servant in the municipality of Gropeny, Braila County, who is alleged to have received €561,000 in EU agricultural funds by falsifying documents on behalf of a sole proprietorship and company.
The falsified documents were submitted to the Romanian Agricultural Payments and Interventions Agency (APIA) in Braila County for the purchase of between 270 and 427 hectares of land in the period 2013-2020.
It is suspected that it was actually the civil servant who ran the sole proprietorship and trading firm, instead of his wife and son, who were appointed as legal managers.
The three persons will be questioned at the police station and legal action will be taken against them.
Dozens of police officers from the Department for Combating Organized Crime in Galati and from the Inspectorate of the Romanian Gendarmerie in Braila are participating in the raids, BTA notes.
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