“Our government cannot take all the responsibility” in this matter, which is under investigation by the European Union, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told a press conference.
The EU probe, looking into allegations that fraudulent claimants syphoned off the money in massive graft, is mainly investigating the period since Mitsotakis's conservative government took office.
The EU probe has shown widespread abuse of funds handed out by OPEKEPE, which according to the government annually disbursed more than three billion euros, mainly in subsidies to 680,000 farmers.
EU investigators have not yet given their own estimates of the alleged fraud or the number of suspect claimants.
He asserted that the funds wrongly disbursed “have started to be recovered” and that “the government is now on the right path to fix this problem”.
The EU probe has found that most of the allegedly fraudulent subsidy claims came from the Greek island of Crete. Experts and media have pointed the finger at corruption and a system of patronage said to be rampant in the country.
Mitsotakis said that “the EU has investigations into numerous matters in all the (member) countries” and his government “has nothing to hide or to fear from such checks”.- AFP
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