EPPO probing cost of Greek migrant camps

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) has opened an probe into Greece’s absorption of EU funds for the operation of migrant reception and accommodation camps successful the play 2020-21.

The absorption of the probe is the extravagant outgo of projects that were awarded to backstage companies without a nationalist tender, aft the authorities cited accrued migrant flows. Two of the projects allegedly under scrutiny are the camps successful Malakasa, northbound of Athens, and Sintiki, successful the portion of Serres, bluish Greece.

The task successful Malakasa acrophobic the enlargement of the existing campy to accommodate 1,500 migrants transferred from the islands. Kathimerini recovered that the declaration was awarded successful April 2020 to a institution based successful Athens. The archetypal declaration for the configuration and basal attraction of the structure was worth €4.3 million. The task was delivered aft astatine slightest 5 extensions, and aft a supplementary declaration worth €1.7 cardinal was signed.

The declaration for the 2nd installation successful Sintiki was awarded successful July 2020 to a technical institution based successful Kavala, with an archetypal outgo of €3.6 million. Public records amusement that the operation received astatine slightest three extensions until its completion, while the competent services had successful the meantime projected two supplementary contracts totaling €1.7 million.

The operation of the camps successful Malakasa and Serres is besides mentioned successful an interior papers of an planetary organization. Their outgo is incomparable with immoderate akin task built successful Greece. “The prices are estimated astatine astir treble those of erstwhile interventions and a wide examination of akin projects showed a quality betwixt +5% and +288%. In astir projects, it is astatine +100%,” the papers states. “The EU has financed very akin actions that were completed successful the aforesaid oregon a shorter play of time, with an magnitude 15 times little than that paid by the [Greek] Ministry of Migration and Asylum.” 

It was estimated that successful facilities with akin characteristics built by the aforesaid government, €270 were spent per beneficiary compared to €3,900 successful Malakasa.