Malta nominee for European prosecution office accepted

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.

Sammut was selected following a thorough scrutiny process by the College of European Prosecutors, tasked with the administration of the EPPO. 

In a statement on Thursday, government congratulated Sammut on his appointment.