EU Prosecutors Send Wrong Felony Charges to Greek MPs in Embarrassing Clerical Blunder

The European Public Prosecutor's Office has scrambled to retract and reissue summonses sent to respective Greek lawmakers aft a clerical mistake successful its registry falsely accused them of felony-grade offenses successful the ongoing OPEKEPE cultivation subsidy fraud investigation.

The blunder affected members of the ruling New Democracy enactment among the 13 lawmakers presently nether investigation.

When the summonses arrived ordering defendants to taxable defence memorandums by May 22, recipients were confronted with superior felony charges. In reality, the bulk look misdemeanor allegations.

EPPO sources said the secretariat had mistakenly entered inflated fiscal harm figures, which automatically triggered a higher discourtesy classification nether the applicable ineligible framework.

A ceremonial correction was issued alongside what sources described arsenic a "sorry for the inconvenience" note, with revised summonses dispatched to the applicable constabulary departments.

The mistake drew contiguous and crisp disapproval from the New Democracy parliamentary group, whose elder members accused the European assemblage of "haste and sloppiness."

Greek lawmakers person already raised broader concerns astir EPPO's handling of the OPEKEPE dossier, with immoderate accusing European Chief Prosecutor Laura Kövesi of employing assertive ineligible tactics against Greek officials.

Despite the administrative embarrassment, the corrected summonses transportation afloat ineligible force.

All affected lawmakers stay required to taxable their ceremonial depositions earlier the May 22 deadline.

The OPEKEPE lawsuit has dominated Greek governmental beingness for weeks.

Parliament voted overwhelmingly past period to assistance the immunity of each 13 implicated New Democracy lawmakers, who had themselves requested the waiver arsenic a amusement of transparency.