“The testimony of OPEKEPE’s Director of Internal Audits, Stavroula Kourmendza, to the Commission of Inquiry casts an even heavier shadow over the scandal of illegal payments and mismanagement in the Organization during the period of ND’s rule” SYRIZA sources report and note: “The self-proclaimed “heavy artillery” of the audits with silences, evasions and contradictions, avoided answering substantive questions about the responsibilities of the “blue” administrations and the Mitsotakis government. How else should she respond, when from the conversations with her “boss”, the man who appointed her Director of Internal Audits, former president of OPEKEPE, Mr. Babasidis, a continuous communication of great intimacy and not “a barely friendly relationship”, as she described it, emerges. Her confession, that TINs were paid without comprehensive checks, constitutes a direct admission of institutional deviation and the existence of a scandal,” SYRIZA sources state.

According to the same sources, “Her reference to Mr. Zalidis, who, according to the witness, did not provide the information requested by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office is also extremely revealing.”

The sources of SYRIZA also estimate that “Ms. Kourmendza seems to be on a “commissioned service” to deconstruct the credibility of Tycheropoulou’s complaints and by extension the investigation of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office. This attempt at disorientation reveals the methodical effort to cover up those really responsible. The Mitsotakis government cannot continue to be silent about what is revealed daily on live broadcast. The truth about the OPEKEPE scandal must be revealed — and those responsible held accountable,” SYRIZA sources conclude