Mitsotakis says new subsidy system would prevent repeat of OPEKEPE scandal

[InTime News]

New workplace subsidy regulations successful unit would forestall a repetition of the fraud ungraded that’s battering the blimpish government, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Sunday.

In a κοινωνικά media post, Mitsotakis besides said helium would supply details Monday of what helium called “a caller start and a much dynamic confrontation with the heavy state,” pursuing what helium referred to arsenic a “negative experience” and a “failure.”

On Friday, three furniture members were forced to resign aft they were named arsenic imaginable suspects successful an probe into the alleged fraudulent disbursal of European Union farming subsidies to enactment cronies done the now-defunct state OPEKEPE agency.

A total 13 sitting lawmakers from Mitsotakis’ governing New Democracy enactment person been named arsenic imaginable suspects successful the probe by the European Public Prosecutors’ Office. The politicians allegedly pressed compliant OPEKEPE managers to manus subsidies to prime farmers – whose claims, successful respective cases, were based connected fraudulent data.

Mitsotakis said Sunday that pursuing “the sick” OPEKEPE’s incorporation with the autarkic AADE tax authority, such “failures” would nary longer beryllium possible.

“Nowadays, for example, subsidies are digitally determined without immoderate quality intervention,” helium wrote successful his post. “And the indispensable checks are nary longer carried retired by officials who are liable to beryllium pressured, but alternatively by satellites that show crops and modern ways of counting livestock.”

The names of astir of the politicians allegedly progressive successful the scandal, each from ND, person been forwarded to Parliament which will vote connected whether to assistance their immunity from prosecution.