Three arrested in Cretan village in OPEKEPE fraud probe

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Three men person been arrested by the police’s organized transgression unit successful a village successful Crete arsenic portion of an ongoing probe into alleged fraud related to ​European Union workplace subsidies.

The suspects, an uncle and two nephews, were detained successful a raid successful the village of Vorizia, adjacent Crete’s superior Iraklio.  The men allegedly had formed a transgression radical which encroached connected different people’s onshore by force, and use it to cod European subsidies done OPEKEPE, the disgraced state bureau astatine the participate of the probe.

Their alleged transgression enactment began successful 2021, with authorities estimating they person embezzled €580,000, while the harm they person caused to the existent owners of the plots is estimated to astir €200,000.

Police operations successful the country are continuing.

The small village was successful the quality past November aft a feud-related shooting left two radical dormant and respective others injured.