
Croatia: Three individuals and a company indicted for subsidy fraud involving funds for earthquake repairs
European Public Prosecutor's Office
(Luxembourg, 26 May 2026) – The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Zagreb (Croatia) has filed an indictment against three individuals and a company for subsidy fraud and document forgery to obtain approximately €2.5 million financed by the European Union Solidarity Fund (EUSF) for post-earthquake reconstruction. As previously reported, between January 2022 and October 2023, one of the defendants applied on behalf of the indicted company, owned by him, to a public call by the Croatian Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development. The purpose of the call was to restore the energy infrastructure, power plants, energy systems and related buildings damaged by the earthquakes that struck Croatia’s Sisak-Moslavina County on 28 and 29 December 2020.


