The European Union’s chief prosecutor, Laura Codruța Kövesi, has warned against criminal organizations having too much influence on democratic structures. “In our proceedings, we see businesspeople, politicians or civil servants protecting criminal organizations,” she told Germany’s Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper, in remarks published on Friday. The European Public Prosecutor’s Office is an independent and decentralized authority with the power to prosecute offences against the EU budget in national courts. Its focus is on crimes that are used to wrongfully obtain subsidies or contracts from th…