Criticism of PASOK and Nikos Androulakis on the occasion of OPECEPE’s case was launched by Justice Minister George Floridis, saying, among other things, “you cannot be serious when representing a party that has ruled Greece for 25 years”.
“Mr. Androulakis appears representing PASOK that ruled 25 out of the 50th anniversary of the Transition and says ‘what are these things?’ I am trying to imagine a conversation by Mr. Androulakis down in Crete “Re Bagasses for 24 years we have ruled, how did we not get it?” While Mitsotakis chooses a policy that says this thing that is not corrected, I abolish it, ”Mr Floridis told SKAI.
He also explained on the occasion of EUR 415 million by the European Commission that “it has been from 2016 and are fines imposed on Greece because it has not resolved the issue of pasture”.
“For the most part, the European Court of Justice will be brought. If the whole thing is left, the European Commission says that I will keep them in part from the next subsidies but this will not happen because last night there is a festival. When the Minister of Rural Development announced that honey and biological livestock checks will be made, we have a wealth of “take us out of the program”. This means that 100m euros are released, which means that the annual installment will be saved from the money that will not be given to thieves. “
As he added, “OPEKEPE must be resolved, discovered those who took the francs – especially most – and to go to prison for those who need to protect real farmers.”
The mechanisms
The Minister of Justice also referred to the mechanisms that allowed the OPEKEPE scandal: “OPECEPE made the first payments in 2002 with Minister Tzumaka under the Prime Minister of Simitis. Then it was considered an intersection to gather the mess that existed. When Greece completed the European Presidency in 2003, and I went to report as a finance minister they asked me “what did you do with the subsidies?” OPEKEPE was made for good but seemed to be not able to do it after they were borne by 10 sides. ” As Mr Floridis described, “the farmer submits a false statement to the reception centers. From what the research is looking for is to see that some of them arranged the false statement as experts with the indemnity. The third stage was that some veterinarians or agronomists should say that what is mentioned in the statement exist. The fourth link is the ones that control OPECEPE systems as they are investigated if they were told to colleagues to declare pastures who saw gaps or with a counterfeit VAT I received and eliminated them afterwards. All this is the circuit for small or big scams, you have no other way. “
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office
George Floridis also referred to European prosecutors by saying, “We are talking about Greek prosecutors who since 2021 was founded by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office in Greece, serving there. This section was founded in 2021, were organic positions 7, the Supreme Council of the Supreme Court approved and then was approval by the Commission. Our Constitution provides such guarantees that all the outlaws of judges is from the Supreme Council of the Supreme Court. “
The story by the Ministry of Sports
Giorgos Floridis, finally, described that “when Kostas Simitis calls me in 2000 and takes me from the interior ministry to the Ministry of Sports, my phone fell. He explained to me that we have been left behind with the 2004 works, organize them. His phrase was “from what I hear a lot of dirt there see if you can do something”. But when I was trying to do these half PASOK’s staffing potential was against it. “
“There is the prime minister’s phrase, gentlemen. We failed means that we have tried in a system, it has rot that if we intervene at one point, it will be corrected. But you caught it at one point and leaving you in another. “