“I removed the president of the organization. Now seriously, will you bring ministers to blame them because they are asking for their subordinates? “
“I didn’t do anything illegal. The legitimacy was and is the one that determines my actions, ”the former minister stressed Makis Voridis Addressing the plenary on SYRIZA – New Left and PASOK -KINAL proposals for the reference to a preliminary committee for his subsidies OPECEPE.
Mr Voridis said that “I was waiting for the opposition rapporteurs to hear something about controlling the category I was given, based on what I heard in the category, but I heard nothing” and noted that “I understand this embarrassment as well as I have been trying to find in the case file for a month now what is the crime that is given to me.”
The former minister said that “in order to have a crime there must be an act or omission of an action due and which is characterized as a criminal act by the Criminal Code” and noted such a description of an act does not exist in the two proposals of the parties submitted.
And in the text of the two 34 -page prosecutors he said to this “they say my name at only two points: one is the document I wrote” I agree “and the second is my request to the then president of OPEKEPE Gregory Varra to resign” and wondered “is it possible to do so?” And he explained that “I agree” “was put into a document implemented by a ministerial decision, which is legal and strong even today. I agree to implement this ministerial decision and they tell me that because I “agree” to implement a ministerial decision is a criminal act! That doesn’t make sense. ” In the resignation of Mr Varra, he said that it was the same without logic to be abandoned “why did I ask for the resignation of a subordinate of mine” and wondered “will you accuse ministers for asking for resignations of their subordinates?” said Mr. Voridis.
The former minister pointed out that the two proposals of the parties for setting up a preliminary committee is based on a transmitter document by prosecutors that are not the result of any evaluation of evidence as they could not do so.
Mr Voridis also described as “oxymorons” the proposals of the two parties attributed to him in the accusations of synergy or morals when he said “morally, by law, whoever persuaded me and burdening someone to do illegal acts and who does it” “Do you want to tell me who does the illegal act? Since there is no exposure to a natural perpetrator, who is the one I have fallen on and helped to illegally? And this is because so far no criminal prosecutions have been brought but you are attributed to me to an unknown perpetrator, for an unknown act! “ And “here is the impasse of your suggestions that are manifestly unfounded, because these gaps cannot be cured by any preliminary examination.”
Regarding the reports of the risk of the criminal limitation of the criminal, the former minister said that this is not the case as “in order to eliminate the utility, the parliament should not have been dealing with his criminal competence until the time when the Second Session of this House is completed, but what we do today, So what is the limitation period? “
For OPECEPE document
Mr Voridis on the document in which he wrote that I “agree” and the document that requested Mr Varra’s resignation said they were not an administrative act.
Specifically for the document he wrote “I agree” he said, “It is a confidential document dated 18/9/2019 and theme: Transmission of eligible pasture allocation, which tells me how OPEKEPE chooses to do the distribution. This document is not an administrative act, it is an internal document of OPEKEPE “and added that this document” is no administrative act there is also an opinion of Professor Flogaitis “and also testified in the minutes, saying that you now” support that I do not have a criminal It does the grazing of the pastures and I because I write that “I agree” you say crime! “
Mr Voridis noted that this document of OPEKEPE applies a ministerial decision, so there is no claim of non -legality, and is a document by OPECEPE that is by law by the exclusively competent authority for the aid. The former minister, addressing SYRIZA, asked if you consider that the perpetual act you say of the criminal infidelity do you think Caprellis has done it? Your Commander on SYRIZA? “
Mr Voridis, at the same time, said a statement by the former Minister of Rural Development of SYRIZA and then the Department of Mr. Arachovitis, in which he had said that “I had never objected to an OPECEPE suggestion” and recalled that such distributions had been signed by Mr.
Mr Voridis submitted to the minutes of the corresponding documents that I wrote “Agree” by the SYRIZA Minister for the 2016 distributions, as well as approvals in 2016 and 2017 for distributions in the spatial unit of Crete by the Peloponnese. The former minister told you, “it is as if you were telling me that the former SYRIZA ministers along with the OPEKEPE commander when you had appointed, had set up a criminal organization to which I also came to my ministry in the first quarter of my ministry!”
Regarding the choice or not of the “technical solution” which is an EU decision, Mr Voridis said this is a matter of political criticism of not criminal evaluation. The legality of the “technical solution” said the former minister “has been approved by two decisions of the CoE”.
Varra resignation
On the resignation he requested in writing from OPEKEPE President Gregory Varra, the former minister said that “it is not possible to consider a criminal act” such as “it is paradoxical to say that infidelity or synergy is performed in infidelity because it calls for the resignation of someone”. The case you make was that “I asked him to resign as the man was going to do something to deal with the circuits” but “to have a jerk, the next OPEKEPE commander had received another order from me, but this is not the case in the case.” He pointed out that “Mr Varras in the three affidavits he has asked by answering the question why I asked him to resign, select and use the verb” I consider “, that is, what he thinks. And in none of these deposits he is asked to say in what facts he supports this theory he has, nor do you ask what I told him as a reason why I asked him for resignation. “
The former minister rejected Mr Varras’ report in one of his testimonies that “Mr Melas was his man in OPEKEPE”, even saying when “Mr Melas was a candidate for the ND, he had visited him in his law firm, asking for his support.”
And for the checks, Mr. Varras, Mr. Voridis said, “he says and correctly in an interview with the journalist Mr. Stravelakis to Real FM when asked if he had notified the relevant letters of checks that” no. Because I found OPEKEPE and I did not have an independent ” Motivation of him for the checks? ” He also said that Mr Varras in another interview on 27/10, six days before his resignation asked about the battle against interests he is giving and if he was supported by the ministry and the minister had replied that “my relationship is excellent as there is cooperation, the goals are common for it?
Mr Voridis, about the resignation he asked him, said that “members of the organization’s administration have a term, can resign because it is not legal. In order to stop cooperation you need to rely on a great reason otherwise you make a request that the other to accept to give up “and so the request is not an act and does not bring about anything, he said.
The former minister said that in the Inquiry Committee where “I will be happy, I will explain the reasons I asked Mr Vara’s resignation as well as various other.”
Concerning the telephone dialogues in the case file, Mr. Voridis said that “There is not a single conversation of his own” As the rapporteur of PASOK-KINAL Evangelia Liakoulis recognized it earlier.
The former minister concluded that with what I mentioned to you, “I apologize to you for two of my actions that neither of them has legal consequences. Because I signed a lawful and execution of a ministerial decision and why I asked for the resignation of a President who was made by his own agreement! ” And “for them you want to refer to misdemeanor infidelity!”