
The EU's Fight Against Corruption
Laura Kövesi runs the European Public Prosecutor's Office, the body created in 2021 to chase fraud against the EU budget across member states. The film follows her prosecutors as they build cases against schemes that siphon off sales tax on luxury cars, redirect farm subsidies, and misappropriate infrastructure funding. The most severe case traced is the 2023 rail disaster in Greece, where a head-on collision killed 57 people on a line whose EU-funded signaling system had been paid for but never properly installed, the money diverted elsewhere; the film shows how that fraud is now being prosecuted as a factor in the deaths. Interviews with Kövesi and with national investigators lay out how EPPO coordinates across borders with local police and courts, a structure built specifically because fraud networks operate across the same borders that used to stop prosecutors. Kövesi argues that recovering the stolen millions is not enough, that the victims' families need convictions. The film stays close to case files and courtroom procedure rather than abstraction.