1+ week, 4+ day ago   (116+ words) An Athens court on Tuesday imposed suspended sentences or fines on 19 people accused of European Union agricultural subsidy fraud. Another three defendants were exculpated. The case was one of many involving fraudulent claims made through the now-defunct OPEKEPE state agency…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (207+ words) eKathimerini.com The cases of four ruling New Democracy party MPs recently referred by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office over suspected involvement in Greece’s OPEKEPE EU farm subsidy scandal will be heard in four separate trials this autumn,…...

4+ mon, 5+ day ago   (240+ words) The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) has said it arrested 21 Croatians, including an acting and a former public official, in a probe into possible ‌corruption and fraud involving European Union farm subsidies. The head and a former expert adviser of…...

4+ mon, 6+ day ago   (341+ words) Fifty-eight people are in the dock in another case involving allegedly illegal subsidies from the country’s disgraced agricultural payments agency, OPEKEPE. The case, heard before the Athens Three-Member Criminal Court, centers on claims that a coordinated network submitted false declarations…...

4+ mon, 6+ day ago   (215+ words) The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) has launched a criminal investigation into possible corruption and fraud involving European Union agricultural funds in Croatia, ‌it has said. Police were gathering evidence in several counties in central Croatia, it said in a…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (240+ words) A 71-year-old prison inmate was allegedly involved in a farm subsidies fraud scheme linked to the OPEKEPE agricultural payments agency, according to police. In a statement, police said the man managed two companies based in Central Macedonia which had no…...