Kovesi calls for bolstering EU prosecutor’s office in Athens

European Chief Prosecutor Laura Kovesi called connected Wednesday for the strengthening of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) successful Athens, during a visit to the Greek capital. She met with Justice Minister Giorgos Floridis and his lawman Ioannis Bougas.

Kovesi requested the summation of three prosecutors to the ten already serving, the hiring of six administrative staff, wage increases for personnel, and improvements to technical infrastructure.

Reports said she besides expressed involvement successful a imaginable revision of Article 86 of the Greek Constitution, which grants politicians wide immunity from prosecution.

Later connected Wednesday, Kovesi was scheduled to conscionable with Supreme Court Prosecutor Konstantinos Tzavellas.

EPPO is presently investigating delays successful implementing Contract 717, a €41 cardinal EU-funded task to modernize Greece’s railway network. The information system that was to beryllium installed under the task is believed it could person prevented the deadly Tempe obstruction clang successful 2023 if it had been implemented successful time. The bureau is besides probing the OPEKEPE workplace subsidies scandal. Both investigations person enactment the EU prosecutor’s bureau astatine likelihood with Greece’s blimpish government.