VIRTEU | corruption | tax evasion

VIRTEU

Vat fraud: Interdisciplinary Research on Tax crimes in the European Union
Grant Agreement no: 878619
Project Coordinator: Dr. Costantino Grasso

VIRTEU is an eighteen-month (April 2020 – September 2021) high-profile legal research project, which includes both comparative and interdisciplinary studies, funded by the European Union under the HERCULE III programme.

The Core Research Team operates within and is supported by the Centre for Financial and Corporate Integrity (CFCI), which is directed by Prof. Panagiotis Andrikopoulos, and its Investigators are legal scholars teaching at the Law School of Coventry University (CLS), which is directed by Prof. Stephen Hardy.

VIRTEU aims at exploring the interconnections between tax crimes and corruption so to unravel the intimate relationships that exist between fraudulent and corrupt practices in the area of taxation.

News from the Research Team

LIABILITY OF LEGAL PERSONS FOR CORRUPTION

July 12, 2020

VIRTEU is delighted to announce that our project leader, Dr. Costantino Grasso, contributed to the Technical Paper "Liability of Legal Persons for Corruption Offences" with the section focused on "Corporate Settlement Agreements"