The police intervened at the beginning of the week as part of the event Colombia in the districts of Košice and Zvolen. The investigation concerns the serious crime of damaging the financial interests of the European Union and the subsidy fraud. The case is related to the contract for the provision of a non -repayable financial contribution between the Košice self -governing region and the Ministry of the Environment of the Slovak Republic (represented by the Slovak Environmental Agency) for a project worth more than EUR 4.5 million.
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO), which supervises the case, has started a criminal prosecution. TASR informed the spokesman of the Presidium of the Police Force Roman Hajek.