Four whole months had to pass from the testimony of Dimitra Halikia to the Parliamentary Inquiry into the OPEKEPE case until the European Public Prosecutor’s Office called her to testify!
There followed numerous “Manifesto” publications which decoded what she had publicly testified before MPs, while it took her interviews with Aris Portosalte, on SKAI radio, before the European Public Prosecutor’s Office realized that this is an important witness, especially if there is indeed an intention to form a complete dicografia instead of the… extracts sent to Parliament.
The former vice president of the agency has pointed out routes and procedures that have damaged the OPEKEPE. Her testimony to the Inquiry alone exceeds 300 pagesin which she lists by name business interests, extra-regulatory interventions and failures in a case that is attempting to be painted blue.
With the risk of a repeat of the Novartis fiasco where the real scandal was abandoned in favour of a political frame-up with hooded witnesses and politicians hanging on the pegs to be subsequently acquitted, the OPEKEPE case, with the blessing of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office, is currently being identified with certain political figures, all from New Democracy, but without evidence.
For her part, leftist (by her own admission) Dimitra Halikia did not hesitate to call the dossier unsubstantiated and exonerate Voridis for “I agree”, pointed to members of the administration who need to be audited and presented evidence showing how they unlocked suspicious VAT numbers not with top-down intervention but through ordinary employees. He even presented their passwords… “This is a scam. Here it’s fraud. Of certain people, of course“, she said without thinking, while in her public interventions she has often commented on the European Public Prosecutor’s files (which she has described as ridiculous) and on the notorious technical solution, explaining the needs it covered.
“Is the European Public Prosecutor’s Office listening?” wondered Charis Pavlidis in his April 15 editorial and listed what Dimitra Halikia had complained about: “So instead of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office investigating the case in this direction, it turned the investigation where the interests wanted it to go, ignoring its reports on the digital payment system and IT companies. Subsequently, by means of “coptics” – specific channels and newspapers – only the part of the scandal that served the narrative of “cleansing” was presented, while “burying” the allegations concerning corruption in the management of OPEKEPE’s software.”
