Mistake in EPPO summons to MPs over subsidy scandal causes fluster

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Nine governing New Democracy lawmakers received summons Wednesday from European prosecutors to testify implicit their alleged engagement successful the OPEKEPE farming subsidies fraud scandal.

Initially disorder reigned arsenic the documents reportedly referred to their imaginable engagement successful transgression offences, while the violations that person been made nationalist are misdemeanors.

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office reportedly attributed the phrasing to a mistake, and sent new, corrected versions.

The lawmakers person been summoned to supply testimony connected May 22.

The ungraded concerns the criteria used by the now-defunct Greek state OPEKEPE bureau to grant European Union workplace subsidies to applicants, galore of whom allegedly had nary close to them and were selected connected the strength of their governmental connections.