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Two blimpish erstwhile ministers person denied, successful κοινωνικά media postings Sunday, immoderate engagement successful the workplace subsidies scandal.
Aides to erstwhile Rural Development and Food Minister Spilios Livanos and precocious resigned Climate Crisis and Civil Protection Minister Giannis A. Kefalogiannis had been recorded by authorities speaking to the then President f workplace assistance disbursement bureau OPEKEPE astir helping farmers get subsidies. The conversations are portion of a lawsuit record submitted by the autarkic European Public Prosecutor’s Office.
“I neither participated nor could I ideate participating successful the committee of immoderate transgression act…I person implicit respect for organization procedures and the sound judgement of Greek justice,” Livanos said successful his post. He added that, arsenic Agriculture Minister, helium had instituted procedures that really prevented fraudulent use of subsidies, redeeming some €70 cardinal successful EU funds successful 2021 alone.
Livanos is nary longer an MP. He near Parliament successful 2023 and, since June 2024, has been Chairman of the Board of HELLENiQ Energy.
Kefalogiannis, an MP from the multi-seat constituency of Rethymno, Crete, said successful his station that the lawsuit record contains thing that indicates either his ain cognition oregon engagement successful the case.
“The accusation (against) maine is based connected the presumption that my erstwhile associate, who was talking to the then President of OPEKEPE, was acting connected my orders. However, successful a lawsuit record that numbers thousands of pages, there is not a single speech of mine, not a single connection of mine, not adjacent the slightest notation from which my ain cognition and incitement to perpetrate immoderate discourtesy emerges,” Kefalogiannis said. He further announced helium will question the lifting of his parliamentary immunity, assured that the judicial system will admit his innocence.
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