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FT Leak Watch — Greece’s CAP Scandal: EPPO calls it an “organised fraud system,” ministers fall, Europe shrugs

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The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) says Greece’s agricultural-payments agency OPEKEPE sat at the center of an organised fraud system siphoning EU farm subsidies via false pasture claims, fictitious herds, and misuse of public/monastic land. On Friday, 27 June 2025, Migration Minister Makis Voridis (agriculture minister during part of the period) and three deputy ministers resigned, alongside a senior secretary general.