All eyes turn to Parliament today, as the 31-member committee investigating the OPEKEPE scandal will convene for the second time at 10 AM. The meeting’s focus will be selecting individuals to be called before the investigative committee. Opposition parties are expected to demand the immediate summoning of Deputy Minister to the Prime Minister Giorgos Mylonakis, while some may go a step further by requesting Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis himself to testify.
It’s noteworthy that main opposition leader Nikos Androulakis, responding to a question from “Parapolitika” during a press conference at the Thessaloniki International Fair, argued that the justice system must intervene. Meanwhile, sources indicate that other parties are also likely to request the deputy minister’s testimony, with New Democracy officials stating that the witness list will remain open.
OPEKEPE: Mylonakis knew, I’ll take this to the end, says Konstantopoulou
Worth noting is that Plefsi Eleftherias leader Zoe Konstantopoulou, speaking Wednesday morning on Parapolitika 90.1’s “Face-to-Face Microphones” show with Vasilis Skouris and Sotiris Xenakis, launched a fierce attack against the deputy minister regarding surveillance allegations involving ruling party MPs.
“It emerges that Mr. Mylonakis, representing the Prime Minister’s Office, was calling MPs in June 2024 regarding the cabinet reshuffle following the European election results. Some MPs, while knowing they would become ministers – as this had been communicated to them – were called to the Prime Minister’s Office and told ‘Mitsotakis wanted to make you a minister, but won’t because of your phone conversations that were monitored and there’s evidence regarding OPEKEPE.’ What’s extremely serious is that the government and Mr. Mitsotakis, specifically Mr. Mylonakis who made these invitations to the Prime Minister’s Office, knew about the prosecutors’ confidential investigation. This essentially means enormous jeopardy to the integrity not only of the investigation but also the prosecutors’ lives. When prosecutors are monitoring a criminal organization and someone is monitoring them, knowing what they’re investigating and taking preemptive actions, alerting monitored individuals that ‘you’ve been caught and this evidence exists,’ then we’re talking about complete confirmation of felonious activity,” Zoe Konstantopoulou stated.
“Mr. Mylonakis has been Deputy Minister to the Prime Minister for 15 months, and everyone knows – and he spreads it himself – that he’s the Prime Minister’s right hand, that Mitsotakis does nothing without him, and that he is Mitsotakis’s voice. He was called to Parliament to answer on this matter – what could be more institutional, democratic, and transparent – and what did he do? He twisted away through incompetence claims, having a Parliamentary service declare the minister incompetent… When you’re accused of such serious matters and instead of going to Parliament to say ‘this isn’t true, this happened’ and having counterarguments – the current question procedure in Parliament is a confrontation process – Mr. Mylonakis didn’t want to do this, obviously fearing further criminal exposure regarding his involvement. He preferred, instead of answering me in Parliament, to post on Facebook saying he’s ‘incompetent and these questions are outside the institutional framework.’ Why? This is a massive issue concerning transparency,” the Plefsi Eleftherias leader added.
Regarding the second current question she submitted to Giorgos Mylonakis, she argued that “I’ve already submitted it, this time on the matter he’s fully admitted knowing about and being involved in – namely a 43-page memorandum on the OPEKEPE scandal that’s been in his hands for 15 months and hasn’t been submitted to Parliament. I also submitted a document submission request. All this reveals major involvement by Mr. Mylonakis in felonies and serious misdemeanors, for which Parliament cannot remain inactive, nor can Justice remain inactive. I will continue taking initiatives and have called on other opposition parties, because this concerns us all. We will take other institutional initiatives. Other parties have responded in public discourse to our invitation.”
