A new revealing e-mail showing that the case of OPECEPE It has many aspects that have not yet seen the light of publicity, according to a report. Everydaythe Evangeloswhich had been president of OPECEPE during the period 2022-2023to June 30 toward European Public Prosecutor’s Office.

According to this, In 2023 payments did not eventually join 9,309 VAT IDs, which did not meet the eligibility criteria to subsidy, with 63% even coming from Crete.

The e-mail includes, according to the same information, two letters-information notes to the then Deputy Minister than the Prime Minister G. Bratakoswhich in the coming hours are also expected to join the case file.

From the material of mail, as Kathimerini states, it appears that the Maximus Palace He knew that the payments of the aid of 2023 did not include the “committed” VAT IDs, that is, those “red »VAT that did not meet the OPECEPE eligibility criteria.

Mr. Simandrakos had informed That is, the Prime Minister’s Office with successive notes in November and December of that year, which shows that Maximus was aware of the issue of “red” VAT ID and after being informed. consent to the blockage.

What do the notes say

Specifically, in the informational notes to Mr Bratakos, Mr. Simandrakos allegedly referred to the payments of 2023, stressing that “this payment did not pay aid to 9,309 VAT IDs because they did not meet the eligibility criteria, of which 5,586 ADMs, 63%”.

According to the same information, Mr Simandrakos, after describing the status of the organization as a whole and, in particular, the European Commission’s supervision issues, asked Mr Bratakos “to have a mediation, which will lead to Restoration of the organization’s public image to the European Commission As for his prestige and the validity of his work. “

Then two informative meetings were followed by Mr. Simandrakos, in which the then president of OPEKEPE developed in detail the status of the organization.

At the heart of the meetings was, inter alia, to decline the tension between the then President of the Organization and then Minister Lefteris Avgenakis, as the tension between them had reached the point of not talking, as reported in reports of the time, and there were also public counterclaims.

In essence, then, the Maximus Mansion took on a “referee” role to fall for the tones, as Mr Simandrakos’ resignation, due to his counter -minister, was ultimately a matter of time.

The e-mail describes that Mr Simandrakos submitted his resignation from the presidency of OPEKEPE on December 29, 2023, and after a meeting in Maximus, in which he informed the smooth completion of the payments, as he had decided: They were perfectly legal.

However, the addition of evidence to such bulky files is a rule, not an exception, which makes Maximus very cautious about public placements from the outset, as no one knows with certainty how the case will evolve.

PASOK: Prime Minister owes answers

Announcement on the occasion of the Kathimerini report issued the PASOKstating that “the prime minister owes answers when he was informed by his closest partner in Maximus about the 9,309” red “VAT ID to OPEKEPE?”

Harilaou Trikoupi typically mentions the following:

“As the Kathimerini newspaper reveals today, with two letters -informative notes, in November and December 2023, former OPEKEPE President Evangelos Simandrakos informed the then Deputy Minister of Prime Minister Yiannis Bratakos, which was 9.

The acting performance “I didn’t know, I didn’t know”, which the prime minister has been uploading in recent days, went down with a stroke. The Maximus Mansion was not only aware of the OPECEPE mismanagement and corruption party, but it has been covering it since. “

PASOK then raises the following questions to the prime minister, who – as Harilaou Trikoupi says – is heavily exposed:

  • Didn’t his closest associate be informed at Maximus then about the existence of the “sinners” VAT? What issues do they discuss in Maximus, if not for such a seriousness?
  • Why did this unprecedented scandal cover for two years?

“Today’s revelations -as we are informed by the Kathimerini newspaper will join the OPEKEPE case file -certify that the New Democracy, auditors and executives of OPEKEPE, had protection and coverage at the highest level of the government.”