Greece replaces minister after resignation over EU subsidy scandal ...Middle East

Government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis said in a statement that Thanos Plevris, a former minister of health and former member of the Greek far-right LAOS party, will be sworn in on Monday to replace Voridis.

Voridis, a government heavy hitter, was agricultural development minister between 2019 and 2021 before being handed the migration portfolio in January.

“Being a suspect in a criminal act is not compatible with the status of a member of government,“ Voridis told Mitsotakis, who accepted his resignation.

In 2005, he joined the nationalist LAOS party, representing them in parliament from 2007 before moving to Mitsotakis’s conservative New Democracy movement from 2012.

At the end of May, investigators conducted a search at the Athens offices of the Greek subsidy agency OPEKEPE and seized documents and electronic equipment.

They then indicated that “a significant number” of people had gained payment rights between 2019 and 2022, mainly by falsely claiming public land.

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