Two defendants for participation in the alleged network of illegal subsidies by OPEKEPE, centered on Giannitsa Pellas, were sentenced by the Three-member Chamber of Defects of Thessaloniki to 12 months in prison, with a three-year suspension, each for three cases of attempted fraud against the interests of the EU. This is the 39-year-old who acts as «Chief» of [...]

The three-member Athens Court of Appeal has decided the guilt of 57 farmers from Crete who according to the indictment illegally received European subsidies through OPEKEPE. On the other hand, the court found, by majority, an innocent producer accepting its self-sufficient claim to eliminate the claim that it was guilty of returning the sums collected and calculated around EUR 30 000. [...]

There has been nothing to do with the former president of OPEKEPE Gregory Varra and the former head of the organization's Technical Audit Directorate, Friday Luckyopoulou – the two persons who were the main witnesses of the European Public Prosecutor's Office in preparing the case for the illegal subsidy scandal through a alleged circuit within [...]

There is no end to the adventures for Friday Luckyopoulou who continues to be punished by the administration despite its important role in revealing the OPEKEPE scandal. While Ms. Luckyopoulou, as a witness of public interest, should receive additional protection, she continues to be in the eye of the cyclone despite the fact that there is also a judicial [...]