(Anadolu) The European Union’s border agency, Frontex, has deliberately and systematically cooperated with Greece in illegal pushbacks of asylum seekers to Turkish waters, a German magazine reported Thursday.
Findings of an investigation by OLAF, the bloc’s anti-fraud agency, on the dimension of Frontex’s cooperation with Greece, were revealed by German magazine Der Spiegel, Le Monde newspaper in France, and Lighthouse Reports.
The report said that Frontex, under the administration of Frenchman Fabrice Leggeri, who quit in April under pressure from the European Parliament and rights groups, covered pushbacks by Greece, deliberately lied to the EU parliament, and covered the fact that European taxpayers’ money was used to finance the pushbacks.
