In leaked text messages, the 49-year-old EFKA employee accused of bribery asks the extortion victim to pay the first agreed installment of the money, as the request for disability benefits was approved as agreed. The 49-year-old was suspended by EFKA.

In particular, according to a report by SKAI and Panagiotis Spyropoulos, the case begins on December 6, 2023, when a woman addressed the staff of the Directorate of Internal Affairs complaining that a 49-year-old an EFKA employee asked her for 4,000 euros to intercede for disability benefits to be granted to her elderly mother.

The “bargains” on the price

When the victim said she was unable to pay the specified amount, the employee proceeded with “facilitation”, he offered to give her 2,000 euros if the disability allowance was approved and another 2,000 euros with the payment of the first installment.

In the conversations that were made publicthe 49-year-old defendant sends a message to the victim with the approval of the request for the payment of the disability allowance and requests the first installment of the money.

In fact, according to information, it seems that she was particularly pressing with her colleagues to speed up the approval procedures for the request for the disability allowance. He told them characteristically: “Come on guys, I’m interested in this case, go ahead with it, it’s still not approved.”

Are we talking about a disability benefits factory?

Since the declassification of the communications, suspicious conversations between the employee and another colleague in the same department (of the Health committees) have been found, saying to each other: “Put so-and-so on the specific committee in Patras. We will put in such and such a specialist Pathologist. What will we do with the special committee in Tripoli?”

Based on the above conversations, the prosecutor ordered a separate preliminary investigation to the officials of the competent agency to investigate criminal acts in the establishment of health committees by this employee.

It is investigated, that is, if it exists disability benefits factory by the specific health committees.