EU Prosecutors Indict Four Acting Lawmakers over Farm Aid Fraud
The indictments follow allegations that lawmakers helped dozens of people claim EU farm payments for land they did not own and inflated livestock numbers.
- On Thursday, The EPPO indicted 22 defendants, including four current Hellenic Parliament members, for an alleged organised fraud scheme involving agricultural funds.
- Between 2016 and 2023, the government agency OPEKEPE was allegedly used to claim subsidies through unlawful administrative interventions, retrospective data alterations, and false certifications.
- Parliament lifted the immunity of 13 New Democracy lawmakers in April to facilitate investigations; The EPPO dismissed allegations against other deputies due to lack of evidence, while three former members remain under scrutiny.
- Greek government spokesperson Pavlos Marinakis stated the four indicted deputies are presumed innocent, as the scandal has prompted ministers' resignations and parliamentary probes affecting Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
- Police arrested 20 people on Crete weeks ago after dismantling a criminal gang assisting farmers with false subsidy declarations, while The EPPO continues investigating alleged acts committed during other time periods.
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The European Public Prosecutor's Office announced on Thursday, July 16, that it is launching legal proceedings against 22 people, including four members of the Greek Parliament, for their alleged involvement in a vast scandal involving the misappropriation of European agricultural subsidies.
4 Greek MPs charged over multimillion EU farm fraud scandal
Four acting members of Greece’s parliament were among 22 people indicted on Thursday by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) over an investigation into alleged farm fraud that has rocked the country’s government. Last year, European prosecutors charged dozens of Greek stockbreeders with faking ownership of grazing land and exaggerating the number of animals on farms to claim EU subsidies with the alleged help of state employees and …
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