“The Deputy Secretary of Rural Development PASOKa candidate for the party’s parliament and owner of KYD in Evros is being investigated by the Justice, on the charge that he participated in the circuit of the 2024 ecological schemes”, said the Parliamentary Representative of the New Democracy from the floor of the Parliament Makarios Lazaridis.
As he underlined, during the discussion of the draft law of the Ministry of Rural Development and Food on smallpox, according to an official complaint filed with his administration OKAY and to the Minister of Rural Development, it is about Mr. Stavros Vavia, for whom both the Greek Justice and the European Public Prosecutor have launched a relevant investigation, while at the same time he is also being investigated by the Directorate of Technical Controls of OPEKEPE.
“This person,” emphasized Mr. Lazaridis, “who today is named in an official complaint for fraud of tens of millions, was photographed next to Mr. Androulakis during his recent tour of Evros. And you know what the paradox is? That on the same tour, Mr. Androulakis was talking about “blue gangs”! Mr. Androulakis, who ultimately owns the “gangs”? Because when your own executives, your own candidates, your own people, manage KYD that are reported and investigated for defrauding millions, then the problem is deeply political and moral. Not even that, I imagine you’ll tell us, that you knew.”
The Parliamentary Representative of New Democracy even noted in his speech that this “is not the first time such a relationship has been revealed”.
“I am reminded of the case of Nikolaos Bounakis, who has admitted the involvement of his company, claiming that “everything was done legally” and that “OPEKEPE is responsible”.
I am reminded of the resignation of the former secretary of the Prefecture of Heraklion, Mr. Lambros Antonopoulos, who received money illegally from OPEKEPE, but finally … he returned it with a delay of five years, after my revelation from this step.
And I ask: If he felt the need to leave, what does Mr. Androulakis expect him to do towards his executives who are accused of embezzling public money?”
Mr. Lazaridis called on the president of PASOK “to stop hiding. He must immediately remove Mr. Vavia from any position of responsibility in his party. To finally assume his responsibilities. Why, Mr. Androulakis, when your executives are subject to such serious complaints, you cannot pretend that you do not see. Transparency and political honesty is an act of responsibility and not a communicative window set up to cover the shadows. And the time for action has come.”