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Twenty arrested in Crete including a sitting deputy mayor over €3 million EU farm subsidy fraud
Greek anti-organized crime units have arrested 20 people in Crete — including a sitting municipal deputy mayor — over an alleged €3 million fraud against EU agricultural subsidy funds that operated for five years through three state-approved farm grant processing centres, with investigators tracking approximately 90 additional suspects.
Forty victims, cut vines, seized land: Crete organized crime case exposes rural reign of fear
A major organized crime investigation in Crete has compiled statements from approximately 40 alleged victims of a criminal group based in the village of Vorizia, with investigators warning the true toll is likely far higher, suppressed by a climate of fear and intimidation that deterred many residents from coming forward at all.
All the horror of the murder in Crete: He executed his son's friend with 6 bullets on his birthday, kicked his corpse
54-year-old Kostas Parasiris, who on Tuesday afternoon murdered the 21-year-old with six bullets and then surrendered, plunging Crete into mourning, has never forgiven 21-year-old Nikitas Gemistos for being the driver of the car in the traffic accident that claimed his son's life in 2023.