ATHENS (Reuters) -Greek farmers misappropriated EU agricultural subsidies worth more than 22 million euros between 2019 and 2024 by faking land ownership, a minister said on Tuesday, following a police investigation that has shaken the government.

Greek police raided the Athens offices of OPEKEPE – the government agency tasked with supervising and paying EU subsidies – in July, seizing hundreds of thousands of farmers’ tax records.

So far, police have found that hundreds of Greek farmers have misappropriated EU subsidies worth at least 22.67 million euros ($26.54 million), after scrutinising more than 6,000 out of more than 800,000 applications, Citizen Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis said in a televised statement on Tuesday.

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