In the words of Adonis Georgiades came Vassilis Kokkalis on the OPEKEPE dossier from European Public Prosecutor’s Office.
Vassilis Kokkalis, speaking about the OPECEPI case from the Delphi forum, said some very interesting things about the European Public Prosecutor’s file against the MPs. As the Syriza MP claimed, the file that came to the Parliament has legal shortcomings.
In fact, he stressed that he is a lawyer and that is how he evaluates the file of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office, saying that it should deal with the substance of the scandal, which is the virtual livestock. In short, he considers the dossiers that came to the Parliament for some MPs not of great importance or rather he considers them legally defective.
As he said on the issue of the OPECEP “And I’ll close a bit with the European Public Prosecutor’s Office. Because my profession is not a politician, it’s a lawyer. And I always position myself that way. There are indeed legal shortcomings in this dossier. I will wait for the substance of the scandal to be dealt with by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office. I’m sure it will. Which has to do with the virtual livestock in our country and which unfortunately continues to this day.”
Of course, everything that the Syriza MP, who is also a lawyer, has been said for a long time by Adonis Georgiades, the MPs under scrutiny and the entire K.O of the New Democracy: that the files sent by the European Prosecutor’s Office for most of them are of no legal interest, because it is considered an offence, for example, to phone an MP about the course of a legal application of a farmer. And often for humiliating sums.
However, for a Syriza MP to admit it, and even a lawyer by profession and against the official party line, says a lot. The problem is that until all this is cleared up criminally, the political consequences will accompany us until the elections.
In fact, the MP sheds light on yet another dimension of the case: at the same time that the European prosecutor’s office is dealing with irrelevant speeches by MPs who are not accused of bribery or anything similar, it is not dealing with the substance: that is, the farmers or the alleged farmers who declared false data for decades and illegally received huge sums of money.
And it is no coincidence, after all, that many European countries have not ratified the European Public Prosecutor’s Office, nor that countries like Italy, where the European Public Prosecutor’s Office investigates most cases, has sent many of its files to the shelf. In short, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office seems to produce briefs without serious evaluation, which nevertheless produce more political than legal results.
