“Former President Nikos Salatas has recognized in the OPEKEPE’s constituencies and timeless responsibilities, which certifies that there was no concealment by the New Democracy governments,” the Summer Sources said by the Communist Party.
“And this is because Mr Salatas revealed that in a telephone conversation with the Deputy Minister to Prime Minister G. Mylonakis his latter made it clear that” he has to let the European Public Prosecutor’s Office do its job otherwise there is no other solution for the government ” It has not concealled anything, but the opposite, “everything in the light” does it. “
According to ND sources, in his testimony to the House Inquiry Committee, “the witness, who has served as Secretary General of the Union of Judges and Prosecutors, expressed confidence that there was a close relationship between Friday Tycheropoulou and the European Prosecutor’s Office, Critical addresses without even having formal and substantive qualifications. In addition, the former president of OPEKEPE spoke directly about the abuse of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office in which he even attributed to her investigation as she “forgot”- as he said- to include in the period 2022-2023, as Paraskevou wished. He argued that Ms Thanropoulou was being prosecuted for 20 offenses, while according to the witness, the OPEKEPE manager had close cooperation with former President Vangelis Simandrakos in the period in question 2022-2023.
As for the European Public Prosecutor’s Office, he said that if they were really dealing with the case for the period 2022-2023 he would have arrested Mrs Thanropoulou. He described the European Public Prosecutor’s Office as “dangerous” by making a political prosecution. Responding to questions of MPs, he said he had no party identity, while pointing to PASOK MP Milena Apostolakis, he stressed that in the judges’ elections he was headed by “your own progressive faction,” the ND sources said.
What did Mr. Salatas testified
OPECEPE President Nikos Salatas, during his submission to the House of Inquiry into the Organization, said:
“I entered the organization and found lawsuits by the OPECEPE technical adviser. I found lawsuits between employees and managers. Mrs Tyherropoulou was a lawyer who had chosen the European Public Prosecutor’s Office as a special scientist. Ms Kivelou, Prosecutor of Appeals, called me, who is a coordinator at the European Public Prosecutor’s Office and which I have known for a long time. I told her that the one you chose (Tyherropoulou) should be checked and not control. He has disciplined and a criminal offense. “
The former president of OPEKEPE added that shortly afterwards the European Public Prosecutor’s Office requested that Mrs Thanropoulou had been removed there. “This meant that Ms Thanropoulou would have investigative duties. I look at the envelope and saw that he didn’t have the qualifications, ”he said.
Mr Salatas, as a historian, described that Mr Simandrakos in 2022 – within ten days of taking over his duties – found that Ms Thanropoulou, who was the head of the Education Department, was capable of becoming a temporary manager of his most neuralgian committee. He argued that at some point Ms Thanropoulou took over the two most neuralgic directions to OPEKEPE. “I find that Ms Thanropoulou, having always had the presumption of innocence, seems to have committed ten offenses and six crimes. What I say proves out by documents. I send a second letter with another crime of a felony and I say the responsibilities of Mr. Paschalis. He cannot ignore the president of OPEKEPE when he says that OPECEPE official must be prosecuted for 17 offenses. And then I found other offenses, ”he added.
Mr Salatas argued that he was slandered by European Public Prosecutor’s announcements that obstruction of control. “It is inconceivable for an OPECEPE president to tell the prosecutors’ colleagues that a person has done 17 offenses and ignore me.” He argued that Mr Paschalis from the European Public Prosecutor’s Office was pushing Mr Tsiaras to illegally, demanding the posting of Mrs Thanropoulou. “Things paranoid to me,” he said.
Referring to the period 2022-2023, Mr. Salatas wondered: “Was there a scandal before 2022-2023 was a thorns and came back after the scandal? Why was it a selective investigation process? At this time Pantokrator was Tyherropoulou. Do you understand what’s going on here? Unquestionable. For the 20 offenses that no one invites me to testify, it’s like not talking. How much can the European Public Prosecutor’s Office have impartiality in what it says? In 2022-2023 the organization collapsed. Things I couldn’t believe they were doing, ”he said.
The dialogues
In response to questions from SYRIZA MP Vassilis Kokkalis, Mr Salatas reiterated the heavy complaints against the European prosecutors of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office, arguing that they have committed the offense of abuse of power. At the same time he said that his dismissal was asked by the Deputy Minister under Prime Minister George Mylonakis.
B. Kokkalis: I have learned in law not to hurry. A survey may end different than it started. You said here things that shake and challenge the core of the case file, Mr. Witness
N. Salad: There is OPEKEPE scandal but what comes out is just part of it. They left out what happened in the period 2022 – 2023 and are responsible for the European prosecutors who leave them out. If we do not identify with legality, OPECEPE will die
B. Kokkalis: Why was this period left out
Salad: Because it is about the actions of Mrs. Thanropoulou who were taken to the European Public Prosecutor’s Office while they knew her actions. Not only protect her but have made her a researcher
B. Kokkalis: All European Prosecutors?
N. Salad: Not everyone. I am referring to Sofoulakis, Paschalis, Kivelou Siskos and Papandreou. They have dealt with the case and excluded the period 2022-23. This period was excluded from the investigation under the responsibility of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office
Kokkalis: Didn’t the ministers know?
Salad: I was informed every day. I sent my written references, letters to Mrs Thanropoulou’s offenses. He sent my own letters to Mrs. Adelini. The Minister was struggling for OPECEPE’s salvation
Kokkalis: Did you say that you were carried by Maximus order?
Salad: that I said
Kokkalis: Who caught you?
Salad: Mr. Mylonakis fired me. I talked to him and didn’t like my position. I told him that I could not accept the accusation that I have obtained the European Public Prosecutor’s Office. I do not accept such a category. And he tells me something about politics and that. I told him that politics I am not interested in I am a judge and president of an organization that I must protect. He didn’t like it and fired me
Kokkalis: Have you read the case file?
Salad: by reports
Kokkalis: for frappes etc
Salad: Of course but these “I told you you told me” don’t constitute a big scandal
Bone: Wasn’t these before?
Salad: They were in lesser degrees. Were magnified in the period 2022-23. Let me tell you something else. Finally, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office sends a document to OPECEPE and requests that any document relating to my own complaints be forwarded. Indeed, Mr. Zalidis, who replaced me, collected them but never forwarded them to the European Public Prosecutor’s Office. When asked why he didn’t send them he said “I have found them with Europeans”. I am neither manager nor do I want to be. These European prosecutors who put them with the rule of law and make a language will lose in the end. They are looking for 2019-22, leave the period 2022-23 and re-catch the thread from 2024 onwards. Why? Because they had taken with them Mrs Thanropoulou.
The former president of OPEKEPE and President of the Court of Appeals answering questions from the Freedom Freedom MP Alexandros Kazami returned to the issue of his removal from the organization, clarifying this time that Mr Mylonakis “did not tell me.”
A. Kazamias: Did you meet Mr. Mylonakis?
N. Salad: No. We had a phone conversation.
A. Kazamias: Do you remember when?
N. Salad: Look, the ND could have when the episode took place with Mr Paschalis who pushed me could tell me that I was not in the spirit of their own. If he did, I would probably leave on my own. But I did not leave because I could not accept this very large category that Mr Paschalis gave me. That I prevented prosecutors. They had set up shows, they had shouted and cameras for that raid
Al. Almanac: What did Mr. Mylonakis tell you?
N. Salad: told me to have no rivalry with the European Public Prosecutor’s Office
Al. Almanac: How do you know it wasn’t the source of your removal order?
N. Salad: He didn’t tell me I’m pushing you. He told me to have no rivalry. I told him I can’t accept this accusation that I have prevented the investigations
Al. Almanac: How much did the conversation last?
N. Salad: 1.5 minutes
Al. Almanac: Was it so instant?
N. Salad: No don’t say that.
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