{"id":7257,"date":"2026-05-25T11:24:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T08:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=7257"},"modified":"2026-05-25T11:24:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T08:24:00","slug":"new-operation-of-the-elas-in-crete-for-opekepe-20-arrests-3-million-illegal-benefit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=7257","title":{"rendered":"New operation of the ELAS in Crete for OPEKEPE &#8211; 20 arrests, 3 million illegal benefit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A police operation by the <b>Organised Crime Unit Crete<\/b> has been underway since this morning on the island to dismantle a criminal organisation linked to illegal subsidies from <b>OPECKEPE<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the organisation are accused of being involved in <b>fraud against the financial interests of the European Union<\/b>, as well as making false declarations for the collection of <b>grants<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>The E\u039b.A\u03a3. operation is focused in areas of <b>Heraklion, Rethymnon and Lassithi<\/b> and so far they have arrested 20 members of the organization, among whom are two accountants and three K.Y.D.<\/p>\n<p><b>The illegal financial benefit, according to the data so far, exceeds 3,000,000 euros.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>After the completion of the operation, announcements are expected from the ELAS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police operation of the Department of Organized Crime Crete is underway since the morning on the island to dismantle the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7257","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\/7257","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=7257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}