Tensions rise in OPEKEPE probe as opposition demands key witness testimonies

A confrontation broke retired within the parliamentary investigative committee probing the OPEKEPE workplace fraud case, arsenic absorption rapporteurs demanded the contiguous summons of cardinal figures, including the Giorgos Mylonakis, lawman curate to the premier minister, up of the testimony of the erstwhile OPEKEPE president, Grigorios Varras.

Varras, who served arsenic president of the enactment from November 2019 to November 2020, appeared earlier the committee but initially refused to reply questions, further escalating tensions.

New Democracy rapporteur Makarios Lazaridis dismissed the opposition’s calls arsenic “unnecessary,” stating: “Obviously, Mylonakis will beryllium called. The committee will determine when helium will testify.”

PASOK rapporteur Milena Apostolaki accused New Democracy of attempting ‘to screen up the ungraded done misinformation astir the alleged engagement of PASOK executives.”

SYRIZA’s Vasilis Kokkalis called for the “immediate updating of the database of witnesses,” naming individuals helium described arsenic “main protagonists of the scandal.”

The committee chairman, Andreas Nikolakopoulos, said the database would beryllium updated “very soon,” pursuing the completion of testimonies from erstwhile OPEKEPE officials.

During the session, Varras made pointed remarks towards Makis Voridis, the erstwhile curate of agrarian development. “There was an involution by the then curate requesting corrections,” Varras said. “When a curate requests a declaration and tells someone to marque corrections, is that interference oregon not?”

He besides said that helium had resigned under unit from Voridis and his director, but aboriginal clarified that this had occurred successful a “good” climate. “When helium asked maine to resign, we near smiling; it was a velvet divorce,” helium said.