May the case of pre -trial criticism Kostas Karamanlis to enter the rails after the vote in the House, but the case of OPECEPE which has taken on significant European dimensions is coming back to create a new reflection at the Maximus Palace.
OR case file From the European Public Prosecutor’s Office that arrived yesterday at the Supreme Court Public Prosecutor’s Office and is expected to be forwarded immediately to Parliament and subsequently notified to the parties includes the names of former Ministers of Rural Development. Maki Voridis and Lefteris Avgenakiswho in turn make sure that they have not taken any illegal action.
Government sources point out to protothema.gr that they have not been aware of the case file and cannot be placed before they are informed of its content, which will obviously determine the decisions of the opposition parties for their next moves. For example, sources of PASOK leave the possibility of requesting the recommendation wide open Pre -trial committee In the case, with government sources responding that they cannot be placed on a request that does not exist and on a dossier that has not yet reached Parliament. In any case, the government points out that the recognition of the problem of OPEKEPE has been translated into the decision to submit it to the AADE, so that the new strict framework for the subsidies would be taken by those who must really take them.
Consultations and answers
The case caused upheavals as they showed her yesterday afternoon and at Maximus Mansion sounded an alarm, with him Kyriakos Mitsotakis to return from Thessaloniki where he toured. Reportedly, there was contact with Migration Minister Makis Voridis, while Lefteris Avgenakis-whose name was heard in the background for days-has provided assurances to the Maximos Mansion that he is not involved in anything. “Because I know very well what I have done as a Minister of Rural Development, I do not have to wait to know what this case file is about. I have been committed by the exercise of my duties, “Mr Voridis said in a written statement. “As Minister of Rural Development and Food I exercised my duties with transparency and conscience. Justice is doing its job unaffected. We are all equal to the law,” Lefteris Avgenakis also stressed.
A critical parameter, according to the analysis of government officials, will be what is included in the European Public Prosecutor’s file for former ministers. If this is, he said, to testimonies of other involved who report them or if they are any subtlety conversations between involved in the former ministers and of course how. However, as stated in the announcement of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office in Greece, there is no substantial assessment of the involvement of former ministers, a role that is by definition entrusted to the House.
The “Triantopoulos Model”
It is a given that the next few days will be of political interest, as OPEKEPE may have been registered in the common consciousness as a “man” of malnutrition, but the involvement of political persons in the case changes the political regulation data. The Maximus Palace is called upon to adapt its strategy to the new data, and there is its “previous” Triantopoulos model. In this regard, when a prosecution arriving in Parliament concerning former Deputy Minister Christos Triantopoulos, he said he was ready to refer to the Judicial Council and announced his resignation from his post. Something that happened, as soon as the decision to set up the pre -trial criticism was taken. Mr Voridis’ case is different in political size and competent sources say that as such will be judged, but the content of the case file will be crucial to further decisions.
Government sources, however, did not leave PASOK’s fire unanswered, saying that the problem of subsidies in the country is timeless and that “on its own governments, successive scandals were centered on agricultural subsidies”. They were even reminiscent of the case with the Yugoslav corn in the late 1980s, which resulted in the imprisonment of former Deputy Finance Minister Nikos Athanasopoulos.