EU Prosecutors Send Wrong Felony Charges to Greek MPs in Embarrassing Clerical Blunder

The European Public Prosecutor's Office has scrambled to retract and reissue summonses sent to several Greek lawmakers after a clerical error in its registry falsely accused them of felony-grade offenses in the ongoing OPEKEPE agricultural subsidy fraud investigation. The blunder affected members of the ruling New Democracy party among the 13 lawmakers currently under investigation. When the summonses arrived ordering defendants to submit defense memorandums by May 22, recipients were confro...

By ANTHEE CARASSAVA