As follows from the decision of the Deputy Prosecutor of the Court of Appeal, Dimitris Gkitzis, ordering the freezing of the assets of Kostas Anestidis, the agricultural trade unionist submitted his subsidy applications for the years 2019 to 2024 to the Certification Body (KYD) Agrotiki Etairiki Sympraxi Thessalonikis S.A.

For 2019, he declared that he held 19 fields: 15 as owner and 4 rented.
For 2020, he again declared 19 fields: 14 owned by him, 1 landless (state land), and 4 rented.
For 2021, Anestidis declared 17 fields for exploitation: 14 owned and 3 rented.
The same occurred with the application for 2022, while in 2023 he declared 16 fields: 14 owned, 1 landless, and 1 rented.
He declared exactly the same for 2024.

According to information from the prosecutor’s office, the investigation found that either no Property Identity Number (ATAK) had been declared for the rented fields, or no correspondence was found between the alleged owner and the specific ATAK numbers.

According to the prosecutor’s decision, it was found that for 2019, 6 fields were recorded in Anestidis’s application and 6 were missing.
For 2020, 8 fields were recorded and 5 were missing.
For 2021, 6 fields were recorded, while 4 were not recorded.
For 2022, 5 fields were recorded and 7 were missing.
For 2023, 7 fields were recorded and 7 were missing, while for 2020, 6 fields were recorded and another 6 were missing. (as stated in the decision)

Further investigation by the AADE revealed that some of those who were presented as renting fields to Anestidis had not declared them in their asset statements, while for others no ATAK numbers had been declared, and in some cases the owners who allegedly rented their fields to Anestidis did not declare them in form E9.

In other cases, no correspondence between cadastral registration and ownership was established either for Anestidis himself or for those who rented fields to him, with the exception of five cases. In fact, the AADE investigation notes that this particular agricultural trade unionist did not receive a total amount of €122,765.04 for the years 2019–2024 overall, but only for the plots for which no correspondence between cadastral registration and ownership was established.

Furthermore, the prosecutor notes that for 2025 Anestidis declared, through the KYD “AGROLOGIC Single-Member Private Company (IKE)”, 17 rice fields—15 as owner and 2 rented—which all coincide, except for one, with those declared for the years 2019–2024 for which ownership status could not be established on the basis of cadastral data.