Answering to answer the questions that were asked as, as she said, the Audit and Payment and Payment Departments were not in her own responsibility, she told the Inquiry Committee investigating his case. OPECEPEGeorgia Athanasaki, former Vice President and Director of the Organization from 17/12/2022 to 23/1/2024.
“I am unpleasant about all that I hear about OPEKEPE scandal, I am sorry, because the majority of the organization’s officials are very capable and honest. I can’t say, I don’t know if there was a brokerage, or circuits or corruption in the body. All this extent that I learned the subject I learned from the media. To the question of whether there is corruption, what I can say and I believe is that at 650,000 applications there will be some individual cases of delinquency, “said the witness, whose deposition was very short and lasted only two hours.
Ms Athanasakis described the former President of the Organization, Evangelos Simandrakos, “a little centralized”, noting that “while I was Vice President I did not know about all the issues as my object was the Department of Informatics and the Department of Rural Development and Fisheries”.
“If you had more knowledge would things be different?”, Asked by ND rapporteur Makarios Lazaridis, to answer positively. He was negative in his next question, “if he was aware of the illegal VAT IDs locked in the drawer of Mrs. Thanropoulou and what actions were taken to control and commit or be paid.” “No, because I did not know from President Mr. Simandrakos, he was centralized. We had a shortage of communication, the information was not enough to me. I learned and learned from the other vice -president, Mr. Babasidis, and I asked to know more from the director then Mrs Tyherropoulou, with whom I had no particular contacts, but when I was informed it was a little late as I resigned, “she said.
Finally, Ms Athanasaki spoke “about the lack of staff at OPEKEPE, for which the Ministry of Rural Development and Food was informed” and noted that when she took up the same post of vice -president “the only mandate given by the then Minister George Georgas.”
Source: Skai
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