According to New Democracy sources, “serious questions arise about a close advisor to PASOK president Nikos Androulakis, who intervened to have an amount of €400,000 written off, based on testimony from former OPEKEPE president Grigoris Varras. Responding to a question from ND MP Dionysis Aktypis, the witness confirmed that Moschos Korasidis, a veteran PASOK official seconded from OPEKEPE to the political office of PASOK MP Odysseas Konstantinopoulos, appears to have forwarded an email to the attorney representing Giorgos and Athanasios Miaoura with justification for alleged refusals by OPEKEPE employees to provide information. Specifically, on July 8, 2020 (nine years after the case began), four executive staff members of the Organization received an email from the attorney representing two farmers who had been fined €400,000 unjustly by SDOE Katerini and OPEKEPE Thessaloniki.”
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“The strange thing about the whole case,” opposition sources add, “is that the attorney’s objections in the ‘Miaoura case’ had been sent from Korasidis’s email the previous evening, specifically on July 7, 2020 at 10:34 PM.” They note that “One year after Korasidis’s intervention, who is now a close advisor to PASOK-KINAL president N. Androulakis and advises him on agricultural matters (!), a second-level committee was established to resolve the €400,000 dispute, despite the fact that this was a case from 2011 (under the PASOK government of George Papandreou), nine years earlier. Subsequently, according to testimony from former OPEKEPE president Evangelos Simandrakos, who also operates in PASOK circles, he prohibited the legal service from filing a civil lawsuit and appeared himself to clear – as indeed happened – the charges against ‘comrade’ Miaouras. The charges involved forgery and aggravated fraud that the European prosecutor’s office had attributed.”
The confirmation by Varras (who says he also conducted a disciplinary review of Korasidis) that there was intervention by Korasidis to cover up a “green” case that cost the Greek public nearly one million euros requires answers both from the “protagonists” and from PASOK president Nikos Androulakis himself,” the ND sources conclude.
