Around 10 percent of all pending fraud cases against the EU budget to be tackled by a new EU prosecutors office are linked to Cyprus.
The figure was revealed on Tuesday (26 January) by Laura Kovesi, who leads the new European Public Prosecutors Office (EPPO).
"That is a lot of work and this is the reason why we need to have full-time prosecutors there in Cyprus," she said.
The Luxembourg-based EPPO is tasked to carry out criminal investigations against the EU budget.
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