Anti-Money Laundering Authority Launches Probe Into Agricultural Fund Scandal
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Anti-money laundering authority launches probe into agricultural fund scandal
The country’s Anti-Money Laundering Authority has launched a wide-reaching investigation into the alleged misuse of EU agricultural subsidies distributed through the OPEKEPE agency. The probe will go back as far as ten years and will not focus solely on the farmers who

Wheat field in the forest, olives on the airfield: fraudsters have collected millions of EU agricultural aid unauthorized. What did Premier Mitsotakis know about the fraud?
For years, we had been raising the alarm about OPEKEPE and illegal subsidies, even in the border town of Florina, when we discovered that 9,500 acres of wild olive trees had been declared and subsidized in the area, emphasized, among other things, the president of the Amyntaion Agricultural Association, Diamanto Kritikou, a fact that - as she said - had reached the then Regional Governor of Western Macedonia, Giorgos Kasapidis, who forwarded it …
Publicly, the proposal to open all tax identification numbers and to publish the names of all beneficiaries of subsidies from OPEKEPE.
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We spoke with Kostas Lapavitsas about Greek agricultural production. I considered it useful to have a conversation that touches on the systemic conditions of corruption, such as the real impasse of Greek agriculture. The dependence on subsidies, the problem of distribution, the small clergy, the bureaucracy of the “greening” of agricultural production. All of this creates a suffocating framework, where the farmer is pressured to adapt to a burea…
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