Malta nominee for European prosecution office accepted
Police Assistent Commissioner Martin Sammut has been accepted by the College of European Prosecutors to serve on the EU prosecution service
29 April 2021, 10:24am
by MaltaToday Staff
Malta’s nomination to the European Public Prosecutors Office (EPPO), Martin Sammut, has been accepted by the college of prosecutors.
Sammut, a lawyer, will act as Malta’s European Delegated Prosecutor. He has been assistant police commissioner since 2014 and a board member of the Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit since 2018.
EPPO was established in 2017 and Malta became a participating member in October 2018.
The office is an independent and decentralised prosecution office of the EU and can investigate, prosecute and bring to judgment crimes against the EU budget, such as fraud, corruption or serious cross-border VAT fraud.
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