Farm subsidy scandal files forwarded to Parliament

Judicial authorities connected Friday forwarded to Parliament two investigations by European prosecutors into a monolithic workplace subsidies ungraded that’s enactment the blimpish authorities connected the antiaircraft arsenic the imaginable suspects are 11 of its ain lawmakers.

Parliament will beryllium called connected to determine whether to assistance the immunity from prosecution of the governing New Democracy enactment lawmakers, arsenic well arsenic of existent and erstwhile authorities members.

Among the 11 lawmakers are Rural Development Minister Kostas Tsiaras and Civil Protection Minister Ioannis Kefalogiannis. The different 9 are Kostas Karamanlis, Kostas Skrekas, Katerina Papakosta, Notis Mitarakis, Dimitris Vartzopoulos, Maximos Senetakis, Vassilios Vassiliadis, Christos Boukoros and Theofilos Leondaridis. 

The investigations impact alleged fraud successful the organisation of European Union workplace subsidies to governmental cronies done the now-defunct OPEKEPE state agency.

Two erstwhile authorities members are under probe for imaginable wrongdoing while successful bureau – Spilios Livanos and Fotini Arambadzi.

Another 5 erstwhile ND lawmakers are under investigation, while a third batch of files sent to Greek authorities Thursday by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office names two sitting ND lawmakers, Charalambos Athanassiou and Tassos Hadzivassiliou.