{"id":355574,"date":"2026-02-25T13:26:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T13:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/355574\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T13:26:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T13:26:15","slug":"claims-for-the-dead-and-10-herd-email-trails-inside-the-departments-efforts-to-tackle-farm-subsidy-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/355574\/","title":{"rendered":"Claims for the dead and 10-herd email trails: Inside the Department\u2019s efforts to tackle farm subsidy fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Department has issued warnings over &quot;circumvention&quot; and fraud within the multi-billion-euro farm payment system. Stock image: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2c346234-5f36-49aa-90b2-09e198f7da9e.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The Department has issued warnings over &#8220;circumvention&#8221; and fraud within the multi-billion-euro farm payment system. Stock image: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">From applications submitted for farmers who had been dead for years to digital paper trails linking 10 supposedly independent farms to a single contact email address, the Department of Agriculture\u2019s Anti-Fraud Unit has unveiled a catalog of deception in its clampdown on fraud and &#8220;circumvention&#8221; within farm subsidies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">In one brazen case, an applicant provided a geo-tagged photo to claim a TAMS grant for new machinery, only for inspectors to find a completely different, decades-old model sitting in the yard instead .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Department has issued warnings over &#8220;circumvention&#8221; and fraud within the multi-billion-euro farm payment system. Stock image: Getty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,61225,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":["post-355574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-ciaran-moran","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-world","tag-world-news","tag-worldnews"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116131501580264755","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}