Staff and critical role in the operation of the criminal organization, attributes to the accountant who was arrested with the other 36 for the illegal ones subsidies from OPEKEPEEEuropean Prosecutor’s Office which proceeded to upgrade the charge against him.
After evaluating the findings found by prosecutors at the home of the 54-year-old accountant, who was initially considered to be cooperating with a supporting role in the criminal group, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office upgraded the charge against him. The accountant now faces charges of criminal organization and money laundering.
The change of category for him 54-year-old, came as products from well-known luxury brands were found at his home, such as watches, bags, etc., findings which, according to the prosecutors, demonstrate the defendant’s active and pivotal involvement in the operation of the organization.
Thus, when the accountant is in front of the Investigator, he will be asked to justify the way he acquired the particularly high-value items as well as the expensive trips he allegedly made abroad while providing services to the criminal group.
Today at the Investigator 12 more
Today, twelve other defendants in the case are being arraigned, while the leading group, which is considered, according to the case file, is expected to be taken to the investigative office tomorrow, Sunday. He is a 38-year-old man from Giannitsa, who is attributed the role of leader, his father and his wife, but also a 36-year-old employee at a Center for Receiving Declarations for subsidies, from Crete.
The 38-year-old “leader”, according to the case file, he had acquired as a certified project manager Declaration Reception Centers, specialized knowledge and experience in the Single Claims process and was thus able to identify and then exploit through the mechanism of the group he allegedly formed, eligible parcels of land and grazing land in unclaimed areas of the territory.
Yesterday, the apologetic process was completed with the decision of the Investigator and the Prosecutor to release, with restrictive conditions, some of them, the first 11 defendants found in the investigative office. These are persons who are attributed a smaller participation in the organization, who received subsidy amounts that do not exceed one thousand euros. The specific defendants appeared as owners or lessors of real estate in false declarations in the Single Aid Applications (A.A.E.).