The entanglement of a long-standing pathology emerges in the Commission of Inquiry, with critical witnesses testifying that reveal a mechanism well established on the backs of honest farmers, New Democracy sources note.

A mechanism that the government is now trying to break, through the transition of OPEKEPE to AADE, the abolition of the technical solution, but also the completion of Action Plan II, in agreement with the European Commission.

“Green” companies, “green” KYD and “technical solutions” inspired by “green” PASOK officials make up a network of interconnections and interdependencies that ultimately led to hundreds of millions in fines, the sources add.

The revelations about Cognitera’s shareholders and their relationship with certified Declaration Reception Centers (CDCs) also gain particular weight. The representative of the company, Spyridonas Karambianis, testified to the investigation committee that “the owners of AGROGENESIS Corinthia EPE are the Agrinio Union and its subsidiaries.

AGROGENESIS declares the headquarters of MESYNEL in Kalamata, exactly the same headquarters”. At the same time, he confirmed that “in 2022, AGROPOINT Kalamatas M IKE will be established with its headquarters again at the same headquarters of MESYNEL and it will also be certified as a KYD”.

The identification of headquarters between three different companies in Kalamata reveals a network with a common control center, while MP Periklis Mantas reminded that “if something like this has happened, it is illegal based on European rules”, as a technical consultant is prohibited from operating a KYD.

In the same deposition, he noted that AGROPOINT “operated one year when MESYNEL did not”, which essentially confirms the alternating operation of the KYD by the same business groups.

A model that reveals how the technical consultant of OPEKEPE had simultaneously turned into a provider, partner and client of KYD, effectively abolishing any concept of separation of roles. In other words, behind the network of Cognitera, MESYNEL, AGROPOINT and AGROGENESIS is the Agrini Union of Panagiotis Koutsoupias, PASOK executive, who served in party staff positions both under Fofis Gennimatas and under Nikos Androulakis.

In other words, it is not a simple corporate coincidence, but a network of “green” interconnections that utilized OPEKEPE for its own benefit.

Even more indicative is that all of the above has not been examined by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office, which must monitor new developments and investigate persons and things that had an important role in the operation of the Organization.

It is recalled, for example, that Mr. Voridis is allegedly being checked for an “I agree” in a document that the then president of OPEKEPE and elected member of SYRIZA (and of PASOK in 2010 – 2013), Athanasios Kaprelis, had commissioned.

When, moreover, so many irregularities, direct assignments, errors in payments, conflict of roles and alternating operation of the KYD by the same people who represented the technical advisers have been demonstrated, it becomes necessary to extend the investigation to other persons.

It is now clear that OPEKEPE was targeted by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office for absolutely specific reasons. The tangle has now been unraveled and the responsibilities have a name, an address and a political color, ND sources conclude.