Farm Scandal: Greek Parliament Committee Recommends Lifting Immunity of 11 MPs

European Prosecutor details charges involving 11 Greek MPs successful subsidy scandal. Credit: Flickr / Cb Agulto / CC BY NC ND 2

The Parliament’s Ethics Committee unanimously recommended connected Tuesday lifting the immunity of 11 lawmakers from the ruling New Democracy enactment whose names look successful a lawsuit file submitted by the European prosecutor arsenic portion of its probe into Greece’s workplace subsidy scandal.

The MPs are Katerina Papakosta, Kostas A. Karamanlis, Ioannis Kefalogiannis, Panagiotis Mitarakis, Konstantinos Tsiaras, Konstantinos Skrekas, Dimitrios Vartzopoulos, Maximos Senetakis, Vasileios Vasiliadis, Christos Boukoros, and Theofilos Leontaridis.

Only 2 of them appeared successful person, portion the others submitted written memoranda regarding the allegations concerning each of them. All 11 had requested the lifting of their immunity.

The proposal is not binding. The last determination volition beryllium made by the afloat parliament successful a roll-call vote, besides conducted separately for each of the eleven lawmakers, during a peculiar league expected to instrumentality spot aft April 19.

The lawsuit concerns a caller 2nd lawsuit record successful which the names of the eleven lawmakers are included among those implicated.

The probe centers connected an organized fraud scheme targeting EU cultivation funds managed by the Greek outgo agency, OPEKEPE. The alleged fraud centers connected a blase strategy to siphon disconnected millions successful EU cultivation subsidies done the agency.

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