Ready to proceed to Commitment to private assets which, through OPECEPEhave received irregular Community subsidies is the police.

According to her information, “Everyday“, Have already been issued over 50 provisions for the commitment of property (bank deposits, property, etc.), which showed indications that they received subsidies with fake – false statements to OPECEPE.

The amount of assets for which a commitment process has been initiated is reaching or even exceeding € 1.5 million, as well as the money disbursed irregularly through fake – false statements. The government is gearing up for official announcements on the issue of the end of August.

On July 9, and while the financial scandal initially investigated only by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office, a climate of the Financial Police now owned by the Organized Crime Management Directorate, raided OPEKEPE offices.

Officers from the Service, assisted by their colleagues of the Criminal Investigations Division for about 3 weeks, remained at the Agency’s premises, copying the databases of approximately 600,000 VAT, which the Community subsidies are paid annually.

The order to activate the so -called “Hellenic FBI” was given by the supervisory prosecutor, Dimitris Gizis, on the occasion, among other things, a reference to the document in which the European Public Prosecutor’s Office forwarded the case to Parliament on the existence of a criminal organization that was deceased. “The allegedly fraudulent distribution of payment rights by the National Stock was organized by criminal groups that included members of the Board of Directors. and other officials of the Organization, officials of the Ministry of Rural Development and Food, OPECEPE technical adviser as well as owners of reception centers, “said the document.

An additional reason – probably the most important – for the involvement of the “Greek FBI” in the investigation is the law governing the operation of the service and enables the supervisory prosecutor Mr Gyzis to proceed with the pledge of assets immediately, as long as the case is still in the case of the investigation, e.g. After the criminal prosecution.

Over the past few weeks, Financial Police officials have been listing a list of about 5,000 VAT IDs that were considered likely to correspond to false -fake reinforcement statements.

Among them were the so -called “unique VAT ID”, that is, individuals who asked for once and only a subsidy by OPECEPE, presented once as young farmers or farmers. A second selection criterion was the amount that individuals received, with the heads of the Financial Police and the prosecutor deciding to focus on subsidies of more than 20,000 euros.

On the other hand, so far the burden has not been given the investigation into criminal organizations, but in easier proven cases in order to have tangible results of the investigation.