The EPPO investigation that's been running since at least early 2025 produced its first indictment in April 2026. Berlin. Three car traders. The charge was participation in a criminal organization that had been buying wrecks at American insurance auctions, doing the minimum amount of bodywork to make them presentable, then moving them to European buyers who never learned the car had been totaled before it crossed the Atlantic. Eighteen countries were involved in the network one way or another.