Decision Day as to the further strategy of Maximus for the case of OPECEPE and the involvement of politicians is expected to be today, as Brussels is expected to return from Brussels Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
The summit that began yesterday morning was not completed in time for the prime minister to take the plane in the evening, resulting in the night in Brussels.
Since yesterday, ND MPs and government officials are rising the case file and make the political weighting for the next steps. In the absence of the central position by Mr. Mitsotakis, however, there is no single line, on the contrary, different suggestions are heard in the background.
Like, two lawmakers who read the case file, Thanos Plevris and the Notis MitarakisIt is of the view that there is insufficient evidence of the criminal involvement of ministers in the OPEKEPE case, without ignoring the sinful nature of the organization’s functioning.
On the other hand, a senior government official does not appear a priori negative on the idea of a pre -trial committee that indirectly but clearly specifies PASOK, although other Prime Minister’s associates are of the opinion that there is no criminal responsibility, so one way would be that of Inquiry Committee.
The government, however, is called upon to manage different data. Say, the Minister of Immigration Makis Voridis He appeared yesterday in a hard line, making it clear that he was controlled only for a signature on the famous “technical solution” and said that he was not heard in the famous crash.
Mr Voridis, however, appeared clearly reluctant to quit intimate will, saying that “the attitude of the parliamentary majority towards my own case”, thus clearly throwing the ball to the Maximos Mansion.
“I don’t negotiate with anyone and for nothing”, Mr Voridis continued, who until a few months ago was part of the narrow core of the Maximus.
The other cited former minister, the Lefteris Avgenakishe says in his interlocutors that the talks show no substantive element of his involvement, nor is he referred to in the context, beyond the deposition of former OPECEPE commander Vangelis Simandrakos, whom Mr. Avgenakis “carved”.
The reflection on the deputy ministers
In addition to the criminal dimension of the issue, there is politics, namely the ND MPs and current deputy ministers with OPECEPE officials.
Referring to the Conservations are current Deputy Ministers of Rural Development Dionysus Stamenite and Christos Kellasthe Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Tasos Hatzivasiliou and Deputy Minister of Digital Governance Christos Boukoros.
What they realize at the Maximus Palace is that it is not politically pleasing to appear to talk to OPECEPE officials about voter rusks, even if all the talks are not the same.
It is said, Dionysis Stamenitis distributed to the media another dialogue than he had initially released, arguing that he simply conveyed to the then OPECEPE President Mr. Babasidis, which he heard from someone knows, without requesting a request.
THE Tasos Hatzivasiliou who accompanied the prime minister yesterday in Brussels, in contact with protothema.gr, said that the dialogue that saw the light of publicity was fragmentary and he asked himself to be informed of the appeal of three farmers, without pressure on the then President of the Organization.
Competent sources report that if the European Public Prosecutor’s Office would simply ask for the lifting of immunity Members of Parliament, but not to do so means that it does not see illegal actions. This does not mean that these communications are politically negligible, especially for some.
The Hatzidakis contact
In this climate, the Vice -President of the Government Kostis Hatzidakis met yesterday in Brussels with the Commissioner for Agriculture and Food Christopher Hansenin which the cooperation of the Greek authorities was agreed with the Commission to absorb OPECEPE by AADE.
Mr Hatzidakis underlined the government’s decision to end any unfair practices in the payment of subsidies to farmers, while stressing the will of the government to soon be passed by the parliament.
On the other hand, however, Mr Hansen allegedly stressed that the Commission’s agreement with the government’s Action Plan for OPEKEPE does not imply discounts on what he has requested to be implemented.
Reportedly, excerpts from the dialogues included in the massive file are as follows:
Deputy Minister of Rural Development D. Stamenitis talks to OPEKEPE’s then President Babasidis
Stamenite: I heard now a guy that a guy got me
Babasidis: Yes
Stamenite: And he tells me, uh, he has declared sweet corn and wants to declare normally. Or upside down I don’t know what it has.
Babasidis: Yes
Stamenite: And I tell him this is not the case, he tells me, he says it with the VAT ID, B. He did it.
Babasidis: Who is he? It’s serious.
Stamenite: I don’t know, I don’t know I don’t know it.
Babasidis: Is he first of all what he says?
Stamenite: Well, what can I tell you, one told me one
Babasidis: That someone opened the system here? No EU and from here it becomes
Stamenite: I don’t know, I don’t know
Babasidis: OPEKEPE does not open the system, the company is opened by OPECEPE’s order
Stamenite: I don’t know
Babasidis : Does he say so
Stamenite: Can
Babasidis: Yes
ND MP M. Senetakis talks with the then President of OPEKEPE D. Mela
Maximos Senetakis: VET Mr. {…}. He has taken 24 tonnes of milk and wants the animals from 330 to reduce to 240.
Dimitris Melas: Well Maxim, Look to tell you. I will make the capsule. But tell him, not to turn around and he gets rooted in the cafes. Because there are many left like his own.
The MP of ND Chr. Boukoros talks to OPEKEPE D. Mela President
Christos Boukoros: I will send you a name-name to get him out of control {…}. Is it going to give him time? If it is not, for health reasons, do we erase this for Erifia?
Dimitris Melas: My Christos is going on, the question is who is going to upload it, this is the story. You know, that he took out that or that he is or what and what. Did you understand?
Christos Boukoros: However, there is no beats that people can deal with.
Fr. OPEKEPE D. Melas talks with Fr. OPECEPE General Manager A. Korovesis
Dimitris Melas: 750 are missing and I don’t think they will come in. Where are the remaining 738 to 23,900?
Antonis KOROVESIS: But obviously bro, ELGA didn’t send you a reservation?
Dimitris Melas: Kutsumed payment
Antonis Korovesis: Yes, Mal …, they spoiled you, they got a little bit of you ..
Dimitris Melas: He will become a farmer too.
Antonis KOROVESIS: Mal … Oh, they spoiled you, I’m sorry now that I’m listening to you. Are you sitting now in the chair and you have come to thirty thousand?
The dialogue of PASOK MP Freddy Parasiris
PASOK MP Freddie Parasiris appears to be talking to OPEKEPE Vice President Lefteris Zervos about a ratio of a farmer producer of his constituency who was filed over time and demanded to be “baptized” timely.
The call is made by the OPECEPE Vice President to inform the MP of his request.
Parasiris: ELA Lefteris
Zervos: Freddy?
Parasiris: Come on, come on Lefteris
Zervos: I woke you up?
Parasiris: NO
Zervos: A
Parasiris: In the office I am
Zervos: Well, I talked to the manager about his own, tak … how is it called
Parasiris: Tek …, yes
Zervos: Check … yes. Well, though we had given three extensions. Oh, he did it too. Four of October ended the last extension and he went and he did eleven
Parasiris: Yes, huh?
Zervos: That is, imagine that he lost three extensions, dude. That is, we had almost a month extension and do it at eleven. Be careful now to see.
Parasiris: Yes
Zervos: Oh, don’t tell him anything, we’ll try to put him in time. I will try to do it, but don’t tell him because he can tie the cord to him now. And also, do you know him?
Parasiris: No, it’s his, EU cousin, who has such an office.
Zervos: Vote, friend voter and so on, fine.
Parasiris: Yes, yes.
Zervos: Be careful now, if I do it, but I say it to you.
Parasiris: Yes.
Zervos: Don’t make a firman, because I will find my trouble afterwards.
Parasiris: Dance, Dance
Zervos: That is, not to do it, do it be, after me, me that Zervos made it and so on?
Parasiris: No, no, no.
Zervos: Why are they. Because it’s not.
Parasiris: Nor does he know who we are talking about.
Zervos: Are, they are in spite of
Parasiris: He doesn’t know who.
Zervos: It’s a paramey. That is, it is out of the process, I will find my trouble afterwards.
Parasiris: Dax, Dax, Dax, Daxe Lefteris.
Zervos: Well, but I don’t know if it will. I say if done, it will happen that way.
Parasiris: Nice.
Zervos: Must, because it is.
Parasiris: Will you get me if it is done?
Zervos: Yes yes, of course.
Parasiris: Dance
Zervos: It’s a matter of service now. I have to find the service here, put his signature to do so.
Parasiris: Dax, Dax, Daxe Lefteris.
Zervos: Dance?
Parasiris: Yes, yes, yes, yes.
Zervos: It was.
Parasiris: Welcome thanks, thank you very much
Zervos: To be well
Parasiris: Hi.
V. Kokkalis’ 3 Dialogues (SYRIZA)
According to the ESP records, as presented in the case file, SYRIZA MP Vassilis Kokkalis appears to have 3 telephone conversations with then OPEKEPE President Kyriakos Babasidis.
The first on 11/11/24. The quote of the case file states: “MP Kokkalis tells Babasidis that he has contacted OPEKEPE’s director earlier and with a director of OPEKEPE for his own issue and asks Babasidis to invite him to Viber.
For the second contact on 14/11/24 it is mentioned “Kokkalis sends a written message to Babasidis and asks to quotation marks not to forget him”
For the third contact on 16/11/24 it is noted “KOKKALIS refers to a man with a surname saying … Babasidis replies to find La … and his rights to be paid”.
Vice President OPEKEPE: I help all of their Cretans… SYRIZA, PASOK, ND Whatever they are
Elsewhere in the Cretan farmer talks, who appears as the protagonist of the case, speaking to a third person complaining, arguing that in his view, Minister Avgenakis and OPEKEPE Zervos Vice President cut off his own VAT IDs to give it to 120 euros.
In a later conversation of the particular breeder with the OPEKEPE Vice President, Lefteris Zervos is said to say: “I have done it to all the Cretans yes, all their Cretans help, SYRIZA, PASOK, New Democracy, whatever they are. Whatever I can do, I wouldn’t do harm to anyone. “