Seventy farmers who received money from the agriculture subsidization fund will have to return it to the state owing to irregularities identified by representatives of the Agency for Intervention and Payments in Agriculture. The sum totals 15 million lei.
The Agency’s director Nicolae Ciubuc told a news conference that the irregularities were detected as a result of inspections carried out at farmers. Over 2 million lei was returned voluntarily. In the other cases, the farmers were sued.
In the same news conference, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food Industry Iurie Usurelu said for the concerned agricultural producers, it is more advantageous to give the money back voluntarily so as not to be included in the blacklist and be banned access to future state funding that will be more consistent than now .
