European Arrest Warrant

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Politics
Caritas affair
Rome arrest widens international hunt in Caritas Luxembourg fraud
A 41-year-old Italian woman has been arrested in Rome under a Luxembourg arrest warrant, accused of helping launder more than €61 million stolen from Caritas Luxembourg. The detention is the latest in a widening international inquiry into the gravest institutional scandal in the Grand Duchy's recent memory.
By Léa Hoffmann22 June 2026
Society
Caritas affair
Italian suspect in €61 million Caritas fraud arrested in Rome
Italian police have arrested Clarissa La Porta, a 41-year-old accused of helping to launder the roughly €61 million embezzled from Caritas Luxembourg, in the latest cross-border turn of the country's largest charity-fraud scandal. Detained in Rome on a European Arrest Warrant from Luxembourg, she faces forgery, fraud, criminal-association and money-laundering charges and awaits possible extradition. She is presumed innocent.
By Léa Hoffmann19 June 2026