A team of the Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA) raided on Tuesday the offices of OPEKEPE, the agency involved in illegal distributions of EU farm funds, looking for files, documents, and other data involving nearly 10 specific individuals, in the framework of an ongoing review of the agency scandal.
Specifically, the AMLA team was tasked in writing by its head, former deputy chief prosecutor of the Supreme Court Charalambos Vourliotis, with collecting from OPEKEPE all data, written or electronic, on whether these specific individuals received subsidies legally or are involved in other offenses such as money laundering. The individuals whose funding is being investigated are active in the Thessaly region.
If the Authority finds a discrepancy between declared income and lifestyle (e.g. luxury car purchases, money laundering through banks), it will freeze all assets of individuals and forward any related data to the European Prosecutor's Office for further offense assessment.