{"id":13067,"date":"2026-06-26T17:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T14:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=13067"},"modified":"2026-06-26T17:41:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T14:41:00","slug":"opekepe-dozens-of-farmers-and-ranchers-from-crete-found-guilty-of-receiving-illegal-agricultural-subsidies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=13067","title":{"rendered":"OPEKEPE: Dozens of farmers and ranchers from Crete found guilty of receiving illegal agricultural subsidies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the guilty verdict handed down for 57 of the total 58 <b>defendants<\/b> <b>farmers<\/b> and <b>livestock farmers <\/b>from <b>Crete<\/b>, the Athens Three-Member Misdemeanor Court reached its decision.<\/p>\n<p>By a majority vote <b>, the court acquitted a producer<\/b>, accepting her independent claim for the elimination of criminal liability, because <b>she returned, with interest, the sums of money she had received<\/b>, which are estimated at around 30 thousand euros.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For some of the convicted individuals <b>, the court amended the charges and reduced the amounts of the subsidies listed in the original indictment<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the indictment filed by the <b>European Public Prosecutor\u2019s Office<\/b>, the individuals involved are alleged to have received <b>illegal subsidies amounting to thousands of euros from OPEKEPE<\/b>, for <b>land<\/b> that they declared in <b>Kastoria <\/b>as pastureland and <b>olive and almond groves<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><b>The defendants did not appear in court<\/b> and were represented by their attorneys, who requested that mitigating circumstances be recognized.<\/p>\n<p><b>The court adjourned until July 1<\/b> to rule on the mitigating circumstances and the sentences to be imposed.&#8221;&gt;https:=&#8221;&#8221; www.iefimerida.gr=&#8221;&#8221; ella&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Three-Member Misdemeanor Court handed down guilty verdicts for 57 of the 58 farmers and ranchers from Crete who were on trial&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-greece"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}