At the end of 2025, 21% of the European Public Prosecutor's Office's active expenditure fraud investigations were related to the Recovery and Resilience Facility.

Omissions

• The 21% figure comes from the EPPO's own 2025 Annual Report, not from a European Court of Auditors report; the MEP's attribution to the ECA is imprecise.
• EPPO phrases the value as 'approximately 21%' of all active expenditure fraud investigations, based on 512 RRF-related cases out of 518 NextGenerationEU-related active cases.
• The 21% is a share by number of active cases, not by value: the 518 NextGenerationEU cases represent an estimated damage of about €5.08 billion, a small fraction of the €67.27 billion total estimated damage under investigation at end-2025 (which is dominated by VAT/customs revenue fraud of €45.01 billion).
• The EPPO 2025 Annual Report was published on 2 March 2026, i.e. after the end of the reference period but well before the session date of 21 October 2026, so the MEP could have known it.

Sources

• PrimaryEuropean Public Prosecutor's Office — Annual Report 2025 ('2025 in numbers')"By the end of 2025, the EPPO was handling 518 active cases related to the NextGenerationEU, out of which 512 stemmed from the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), corresponding to approximately 21% of all active expenditure fraud investigations."
• SecondaryFinancialCrime.lu — EPPO Annual Report 2025"The Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) has been a major target: 518 active EPPO cases relate to NextGenerationEU funds, with an estimated damage to EU finances of €5.08 billion."