The vice-president of the Professional Sports Committee and professor of Constitutional Law, Haris Tsiliotisspoke to “Lawsuit against SKAI”both for its Greekization Romanoafter a request to the prime minister’s office, as well as for the case of illegal betting.
“From March 2023 I have a case of a woman who has been living in Greece for 25 years. This is now one of the many cases where an attempt is made to Greekize an athlete for understandable reasons. This document refers to three applications. The granting of Greek citizenship is given for specific reasons and we do not know if they are the same in this case.
The granting of citizenship is an administrative act and must contain reasons and make explicit reference to the basis of the law. If it is done, that is, for some special reasons, such as, for example, honor. There are two possibilities here. Or to be revoked as an illegal act or to operate whoever has a legal interest“, he said about the Greekization of Romano.
Regarding the case of illegal betting, he underlined: “We do not engage in betting as a Commission. I have been there for three years and we have not had such issues. It is a matter of criminal justice, and in this case the prosecutor has engaged in a manner, to say the least, unprofessional. We are talking about a system with many tentacles here, maybe 170 is a small number and more will be revealed later.
We talked about some institutional issues for the administration of criminal justice. The fact that it is awarded so late helps to weaken any evidence against the defendants.
Many governments in the past, and the current one, attempted to speed things up by removing cases from the docket of the primary courts, but these are aspirin and of dubious constitutionality. There must be other ways. In a serious case like the investigator’s, whoever is promoted to president of Appeals should continue the investigation and not change».
On Greece being at high levels of corruption because many players remain unpaid: “It is true that many players, mainly from Super League 2 teams, have not been paid. We try to deal with this with letter of guarantee deposits.
Football and basketball teams to participate in the league must have filed a letter and if one is not paid it can be forfeited. This safety net is provided so that we are not led to the expulsion of the group, once the debt is covered by the letter.
We send a request for expulsion to the Federation, but the reality is unpleasant. We were making, for example, decisions to deduct points and they were barred by a three-month statute of limitations. I admit a reality concerning the EPO. Our own decisions in the end are not implemented by the EPO.
Our Committee is also ridiculed, because we take decisions and they are canceled on the grounds of statute of limitations. We take the decisions according to the Law, we commit ourselves. We are still unpaid, for nine months. Hope dies last».
Source: Sport Fm
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