The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO), the office in Cluj-Napoca, conducts searches on Thursday in several locations in Brăila County, as part of an investigation into a fraud of over half a million euros with agricultural funds, committed by a civil servant and his family.
According to a statement from the EPPO, raids are taking place at the office of the official involved in this case, at three companies, and four residences.
The investigation targets a public official from the Gropeni commune, Brăila County, who is suspected of obtaining 561,000 euros from EU agricultural funds by falsifying documents in the name of a sole proprietorship and a company.
The falsified documents were submitted to the Romanian Agency for Payments and Intervention in Agriculture (APIA) - Brăila County Center for the acquisition of between 270 and 427 hectares of land between 2013 and 2020.
It is assumed that the public official was actually the one managing the sole proprietorship and the company, instead of his wife and son, who were appointed as legal administrators.
All three individuals will be brought to the police station for questioning, and legal measures will be taken against them.
