By Yannis Anifantis

Former OPECEPE Lefteris Zervos Vice President Lefteris Zervos made the categorical denial of any illegality or political intervention in the House of Inquiry Committee, clarifying that he has never prevented checks. “There has never been any intervention either by Mr. Avgenakis or Mr. Tsiaras. My answer is categorical, this was not the case, “he said, in response to Makarios Lazaridis, who asked him if there were pressure on the VAT ID. “I do not know that something illegal to OPECEPE as I was in the organization,” he said elsewhere.

Indeed, Mr Zervos denied that he had prevented Zoniana’s checking, making it clear that he could neither speed up nor delay control. “The control was never interrupted, the check was done on our days and there were findings. Zoniana was controlled. We kept the legal ones. We have never interrupted, nor did we speed up, “he said.

However, the thermometer in Room 223 went up when the witness cited the right to silence for talks allegedly with farmers for arrangements included in the case file. “I use my right to silence and non -self -esteem in the part of dialogues. I will probably be asked by the natural judge to testify. For the dialogues I have only seen excerpts, I do not have the case file, “the witness argued, with the opposition calling for the interruption of the meeting to give him the talks and come back.

Makarios Lazaridis said about a “show without substance” due to the opposition due to the morning deposit Kaprellis, with the meeting being continued normally.

PASOK Sources: “The guilty silence of Mr. Zervos”

Harilaou Trikoupi spoke of a “unprecedented incident” in the Inquiry Committee, “with former OPEKEPE Vice President Mr. Zervos choosing when to answer questions and when he will invoke the right to silence”. “Mr Zervos’ silence is a confession of guilt. It is not going to escape from society and honest farmers accountability, “he said.

“He is committing the members of the committee to cover himself and the ‘blue’ involved in the organized corruption circuit in OPEKEPE. He only represents the witness when he is asked by MPs of his party, ND.

“The former Vice President of OPEKEPE, who in the talks is reminiscent of a margin man, appeared today in the costume of the technocratic and the” young man “who was called by the staff to contribute to the modernization of the State. In other words, in the … setting up of the ND rushing mechanism in Crete, “Koumoundourou support sources.