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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 13842
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NEWS BRIEFS / Justice

European Public Prosecutor’s Office secures conviction of contractor in Czech Republic for fraud involving ERDF funds

02/04/2026 (Agence Europe)On Wednesday 1 April, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office in Zlín announced that an entrepreneur in the Czech Republic had been sentenced to six years and six months in prison for subsidy fraud, damaging the EU’s financial interests, harming a creditor and money laundering. The Ostrava Regional Court found that the defendant had improperly obtained €1 million from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) for a data storage project in...