Germany on White Collar Crime, Anti-Corruption & Fraud

The European Council has recently adopted the "directive on the definition of criminal offences and penalties for the violation of Union restrictive measures" (2024/1226).

The Ger­man go­vern­ment co­ali­tion in­tends to battle VAT fraud and mo­der­nise the VAT pro­cess. As a first step, the Growth Op­por­tu­nities Act will now in­tro­duce man­datory eIn­voi­cing for

On 29 April 2024, the European Banking Authority (EBA) published an opinion on new types of payment fraud and possible mitigants, addressed to the EU co-legislators and the EU Commission (the Opinion).