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Deputy Minister to the Prime Minister, Giorgos Mylonakis, submitted an informal enactment to the parliamentary investigative committee which described however the strategy wrong Greece’s disgraced workplace subsidy agency, OPEKEPE, was operating.
The enactment was fixed to Mylonakis by Grigoris Varras, the erstwhile president of OPEKEPE. Mylonakis has been heavy criticised by absorption parties for not taking enactment contempt being alert of the lawsuit and the alleged transgression responsibilities of members of the organisation. Opposition parties person repeatedly called for him to beryllium summoned to look earlier the committee arsenic a witness.
Grigoris Varras, considered a cardinal witness, will testify successful the committee connected Tuesday. He had antecedently informed the erstwhile Agriculture Minister, Makis Voridis, astir ‘irregularities’ successful the subsidy system, and had sent the archetypal cases to prosecutors earlier being forced to resign.
In a missive to the president of the committee, Andreas Nikolakopoulos, Mylonakis said that helium was placing himself ‘automatically and unreservedly astatine the disposal of the committee successful bid to testify within the model of my organization relation arsenic Deputy Minister to the Prime Minister, with the superior purpose of assisting successful the committee’s work’.
He added: ‘I ne'er received immoderate authoritative document, but alternatively a elemental and informal accusation enactment of a technical quality from a authorities advisor, which included respective organisational issues.’
The missive specifically states that helium is forwarding the ‘Informal Information Note for OPEKEPE’, dated 6 June 2025, which was intended exclusively for interior use and which helium received connected his mobile telephone connected 15 June 2025. The enactment was written by Grigorios Varras, Professor astatine the School of Agriculture of the University of Ioannina.
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