OPEKEPE Explanatory Committee has been proposed by New Democracy KO.

Marinakis: The data transmitted to the House for Voridis and Avgenakis do not qualify for pre -trial investigation

The recommendation Inquiry Committee for the period from the establishment of the OPECEPE To date, the New Democracy Parliamentary Group proposes by the decision of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, as announced by the government spokesman in the briefing of political editors. Pavlos Marinakis.

He noted that “OPECEPE’s actions will be examined since its establishment in 1998, until today.”

According to him, “the evidence transmitted to the House for the two former Ministers of Rural Development by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office for the two former Rural Development Ministers […] They do not qualify for the establishment of a pre -trial committee. “

To a question if there is Risk of limitation due to long space Covered by the Inquiry, Mr. Marinakis replied: “There is no risk of limitation because the Constitution has changed on our own days, there is no question of a depreciation deadline and there is no question of any limitation. The parties, which were cut for the limitation period, have passed about 20 days and we are still waiting for their proposal.

“If they think there is such a great risk that I say it again, they should be in a hurry and in a few days to submit a proposal. August is about to come in and we are still waiting for the parties that are anxious for the limitation. They know there is no danger. Impressions play. “

In detail, Mr Marinakis stated that by the decision of the Prime Minister, the ND CO, “having studied the data and details of the case file on the OPECEPE case thoroughly, will propose setting up an Inquiry Committeewhich will explore all aspects of the issue, away from small -party expediencies and with the aim of seeking the truth and consolidating the subsidy system. “

And continued by saying that ‘our proposal concerns the period Since the establishment of OPEKEPE in 1998 until todayIn order to seek and investigate all the pathogens, to identify the problems and to have complete purification and transparency, for the benefit of our producers, the agricultural and livestock sectors and the country as a whole. “

Explaining the reasons for the decision, Mr. Marinakis gave seven points:

1. “The issue of OPEKEPE, which annually distributes aid of EUR 2.5 billion to 645,000 producers, is timeless and the Inquiry Committee has the full capacity and discretion of the investigation, without excluding any development. The search for responsibility, based on the facts and not the small -party aspirations, will be served through the examinations of the examination that will investigate everything for the operation of the organization since 1998.
2. The fact that since 1998 until today they have been imposed on our country fines Over € 2.7 billion, he stresses the need to seek the causes of imposing fiscal corrections, to investigate the problems in depth and to close all the gaps which cause serious economic sanctions on the EU side.
3. Will be examined OPEKEPE’s actions from its establishment until todaytheir proposals to political leaderships and what their response is. In the same context, it will be investigated by which ministers transmitted fraud cases to the judicial authorities and overall what the agency’s administrations did for the “red” VAT IDs found by cross -checks.
4. They will be checked who requested and carried out cross -checks, what their results and their duration, but also what are the gaps of the system. The role of the technical adviser and its relationships with the operation of OPEKEPE will be explored, and it will be sought whether there were unfair influences in the organization or ineffective system of internal controls.
5. The Inquiry Committee will investigate key issues such as the “technical solution”, which has been a timeless selection of many different governments and ministers, to address the issue of paying aid to breeders, as well as the issue of the definition of pastures, which brought the “technical solution”.
6. All the reasons for the non -implementation of grazing plans will be searched and examined and their association with the Forestry, Land Registry and other digital tools of OPEKEPE.
7. The data transmitted to the House for the two former Ministers of Rural Development by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office, without evaluation in accordance with the Constitution, do not qualify for the establishment of a pre -trial committee. We note that no prosecutions have been prosecuted for other non -political persons.

Mr Marinakis concluded by saying: “For all these reasons, but primarily because we propose the radical treatment of a serious timeless problem from hypocritical party exploitation, we propose the establishment of an Inquiry Committee, where everything will be investigated, without any purpose, with no desire.

The establishment of an Inquiry Committee will also help the effective investigation of any criminal liability and not only limited to specific politicians.

We call on the parties to lift the circumstances against a timeless “wound” of decades, voting in favor of our proposal for an Inquiry Committee to investigate all the data from 1998 until today. “