{"id":4374,"date":"2026-05-07T07:44:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T04:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=4374"},"modified":"2026-05-07T07:44:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T04:44:00","slug":"legal-gnome-from-covesi-sent-felony-summonses-to-deputies-being-investigated-for-misdemeanor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=4374","title":{"rendered":"Legal gnome from Covesi: sent felony summonses to deputies being investigated for misdemeanor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several MEPs have spoken of problematic practices by the European Public Prosecutor&#8217;s Office in the OPEKEPE case.<\/p>\n<p>The study by the European Public Prosecutor, <b>Laura Covesi,<\/b> to send to the Parliament the subpoenas for explanations to the MEPs whose immunity has been lifted in the case of <b>OPEKEPE<\/b> he also confirmed the sloppiness followed throughout the process.<\/p>\n<p>As it became known yesterday afternoon (the news was revealed by ptotothema) Ms. Covesi <b>calls them to &#8220;apologize&#8221; for felony charges while the reason they were asked to <a href=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.gr\/arsi-asylias\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">waive their immunity under the plea agreement was for a misdemeanor! <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Only two of the thirteen MPs, <b>Katerina Papakosta<\/b> and Kostas A. Karamanlis, are being investigated for a felony, as the amount they allegedly damaged the state<b> exceeds 120,000 euros,<\/b> while the other 11 are being investigated for misdemeanor offenses. <\/p>\n<p>For the latter, the error in the summonses was found in the amounts, where they <b>appeared<\/b> to have also damaged more than 120,000 euros and were therefore liable for a felony, while <b>the dictations that had been sent referred to much smaller amounts and therefore the offence was a misdemeanour. <\/b><\/p>\n<p>In response to the <b>gaffa<\/b> of the European Public Prosecutor&#8217;s Office, sources in the South West parliamentary group have spoken of &#8220;haste&#8221; and &#8220;sloppiness&#8221; governing the process. It is recalled that after the transmission of the OPEKEPE case files to the Parliament, there were <b>several MPs who spoke of problematic practices of the European Prosecutor&#8217;s Office in the OPEKEPE case, leaving spikes for the practice of salami-slicing the case file. <\/b><\/p>\n<p>The mistake made in the calls for explanations is a matter of time to be corrected, as the secretariat of the European Public Prosecutor&#8217;s Office was immediately informed of the mistake and the corrected calls will be sent in the coming days. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A clerical error by the secretariat of the European Public Prosecutor,&#8221; said the well-known criminal lawyer <b>Michalis Dimitrakopoulos<\/b>, disclosing that the summonses concerning his own clients &#8220;were with the correct amounts&#8221; and added that this is a mistake that will be corrected in two or three days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several MEPs spoke of problematic practices of the European Public Prosecutor&#8217;s Office in the OPEKEPE case.<br \/>\nThe haste of the European &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}