Οπεκεπε: how the scheme of fraud with the EU subsidies worked – kickbacks and false declarations

The results of the investigation due to a fraudulent scandal around subsidies EU For farmers and livestock breeders appear daily, exposing how well organized was Fraud mechanism with the participation of citizens, employees Οπεκεπεintermediaries, as well as politicians who achieve goods for their voters.

Sources referring to an extensive business European prosecutorpublish excerpts from the listened telephone conversations between high -ranking officials and local representatives of the ruling party who often mention the names of the current ministers.

“Excerpts of telephone conversations reveal great pressure, blackmail and even a threat to life.”– commented on the TV channel SKAI TV.

In particular, it was revealed that relatives of politicians and other local and non -native officials annually received subsidies for several thousand euros.

Rollings up to 80% subsidies

The intermediaries received most of the funds, while citizens participating in the scheme took only 20% of the total subsidy annually.

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Η ταρίφα για την υποδοχή μιας δήλωσης με τη μίζα αρχίζει από:

– 60%: για επιδότηση έως 5,000 €/έτος
– 70%: 5,000 € – 15,000 €/έτος
– 80%: 15,000 €+#κυβερνηση_μητσοτακη #Μητσοτάκης #Βοριδης #Αυγενάκης #Χασαπης #φραπες #νδ pic.twitter.com/1tigwquazg

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Starting fee or, more precisely, a rollback for an illegal subsidy, including a declaration of pastures, the number of animals or agricultural land Mega TVmade up:

• 60%: for subsidies up to 5000 euros/year
• 70%: 5000–15,000 euros/year
• 80%: more than 15,000 euros.

The media reported that payments were made through ATMs, and the intermediary accompanied the recipient to the bank and immediately took his share.

The “board” was then distributed between all participants in the scheme – civil servants, employees of οπεκεπε and unknown persons.

Although the government of the Mitsikitis insists on the return of “false” subsidies, there is a big question of how to return the entire amount of fraud, estimated at 300 million euros, if the latter does not reveal in the fraud chain who was an intermediary who took the main part of the subsidy and will not provide evidence of what happened.

This is impossible!

“Feast” with thousands of euro illegal subsidies

There are more and more complaints and revelations about the scandal Οπεκεπεsince, it seems, the “feast” took place with subsidies for thousands of euros, which were received by people who declared hectares in other places, up to hectares, where hemp plantations were grown, the publication reports Ethnos.gr.

“They took hundreds of thousands of euros for olive trees inside the airport”– the farmer from Larisa complained, adding that the wife of the former president Οπεκεπε She announced the rental of hectares for the cultivation of olives at the Airport of the Greece Air Force, receiving thousands of euros of subsidies.

“In 2019, 2600 olive trees were leased to the Joint-Stock capital of the Air Force of the 112th combat wing in element on an area of ​​600 hectares. Inside the airport! “ – said the farmer.

“It is assumed that they were rented by the wife of the former vice president οπεκεπε”– he added, emphasizing that “Since 2019, she annually received a subsidy of 120,000 euros”.

Indeed, a private person received subsidies for olive trees rented from the Air Force Joint -Stock Capital and located at Elephasin’s military airport until 2023!

Checks and shots

President of the Athenian Police Demosthenis Pacos made an incredible statement about the scandal Οπεκεπε. He mentioned that there were suspicions: in Crete subsidies from European funds were also received for hemp plantations. He emphasized that it is known about people in certain areas involved in drug trafficking, and when the police are sent for inspections, they shoot at them.

“It should be checked if they received subsidies and had hemp plantations. I cannot follow him and plant him, and they should receive subsidies “– said Pacos on SKAI TV.

Advocate Stavrula Antigoni Step indicated that in connection with the scandal Οπεκεπε You should also check the family members of those who received subsidies. She noted that there are allegations – intermediaries organizing illegal subsidies accompanied the alleged beneficiaries who received money, and immediately after the payment they took away the rollback.

Crete became blue, thanks to the scheme

It is worth recalling that most participants in the scheme are based on the island of Crete, whose population traditionally voted for socialists Pasok. However, illegal subsidies made the island “blue” (the color of the ruling party “New Democracy) in the last elections.

However, not all peasant and livestock breeders of Crete were involved in the scheme and are now outraged by illegal practices and money received by “bandits”.

The local official, mentioned in the case as one of the participants in the scheme, called on the media to stop publishing excerpts of telephone conversations, claiming that this could provoke a “revenge” on the island between those who received subsidies and those who do not.

It is remarkable that over the past five years, the number of sheep and goats on the island, according to fraudulent declarations, has grown to 8 million (!), Leaving little space for the lives of local residents and tourists.

The number of sheep and goats without Crete (orange line), in Crete (blue line)

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Fake tax numbers for non -existent farmers

Farmer Christ Sidiropoulos reported at Mega TVthat private companies fed tax identification numbers of non -existent farmers to obtain subsidies.

“They had fake documents, fabricated tax numbers and farmers who collected money that were supposed to go to young farmers and livestock breeders since 2017– he said. – When a change came in 2017, allowing the declare of 2000 hectares of pastures in gramos and Witsi without animals, then a bag of eola opened up ”.

A man with a nickname “Merciful Tasos” organized the receipt of 700,000 tax numbers of farmers. Some influential local residents of Crete were known under the nicknames of “frape” and “butcher”.

The filing of false declarations continues, despite the investigation

However, despite the exposure of the media, the submission of applications continues. As reported by Open TV Dimitris Kapunis, president of agricultural cooperatives of Naksos, “We have been registering applications for 10 days, until the end of the month. So, we discovered that while my grandfather had come to declare an olive farm, someone else had already done this. We started checking, the second came, we called that some uncle also went to declare, and so on, we looked inside and saw that in the first two days about 200 hectares of olive trees in Naksos were announced. Yesterday at noon we found out that about 1,500 hectares of olive trees were declared from other areas of Naksos. That is, the “gylyanka” with scammers, despite everything that was done, continues. They declare them online to get a subsidy “.

There are also complaints about the false registration of thousands of hectares around Lake Karl in the north of Greece for growing tomatoes that have never been cultivated there. This is similar to the fact that growing bananas on the top of Olympus!

The investigation of the scandal shakes the government of Mitsikitis

The political thermometer in recent days has risen to unprecedented heights, scandal Οπεκεπε It causes shocks in the government, while the opposition is preparing a proposal to create an investigation commission, demanding a severe punishment for the perpetrators.

For the government, it will be a real challenge to convince Greek voters that the Prime Minister Mitsikitis did not know about what was happening.

Scandal Οπεκεπε He caused mass indignation, especially among small farmers and livestock breeders, who often leave empty -handed or with a “bag of peanuts”, when it comes to subsidies and are forced to sell their herds or fields, as they cannot continue to work.

Over the past two days, rumors have been in the media that the European prosecutor is preparing a second case, where the names of about 40 legislators will be mentioned as involved in the subsidy scheme.

PS for now Ursula von der Layen and her environment will be in power in Brussels, Nobody can “drown” Mitsikitisa. However, judging by the cases of corruption (Οπεκεπε + Recovery Fund Greece)those who who opposes the current course of the European Commissionbelieving that the current policy of the Blok leadership leads the European Union to the abyss.

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