Dumitru Andreshoi, the largest sheep breeder in Romania and chairman of the 'Dacia' Sheep Breeders' Association, has been detained by the European Prosecutor's Office along with two other association members and eight other suspects. They are accused of defrauding European funds worth over 11.2 million lei (approximately BGN 4.5 million). The scheme involved leasing land in forested areas, which is ineligible for pasture maintenance subsidies, and falsifying data to obtain these subsidies from 2018 to 2023. Officials from the Romanian Agency for Payments in Agriculture have been implicated in the approval of these fraudulent subsidies.