Parliament moves quickly on OPEKEPE indictments

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Parliament is preparing to fast-track caller OPEKEPE cultivation backing ungraded indictments so they tin permission the legislature arsenic σύντομα arsenic imaginable and beryllium handled by the regular justness system. 

On Friday, the accomplishment of the lawsuit files to Parliament triggered the convening of the Ethics Committee for Holy Tuesday. 

Greek Parliament received lawsuit files from the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) related to the OPEKEPE scandal, which involves the alleged fraudulent organisation of EU cultivation subsidies, on with a petition to assistance the parliamentary immunity of 11 lawmakers to let imaginable transgression investigations.

The Ethics Committee will reappraisal requests from prosecutors to assistance the immunity of 11 MPs and supply a proposal to the Plenary, which is expected to vote instantly aft April 19. The urgency is driven by concerns implicit the statute of limitations, peculiarly for misdemeanors from 2021.

Separately, the lawsuit involving two erstwhile ministers is being treated differently. The material, considered non-disclosable, became available Friday morning, successful a special Parliament room, for party-appointed MPs to study. The country will stay unfastened regular done Holy Thursday, and again from the Tuesday aft Easter until April 17.

The program appears to reflector erstwhile procedures, such arsenic the 1 for the erstwhile Transport Minister successful the Tempe railway catastrophe case, which moved from the Plenary determination to a completed committee study successful conscionable astir a month. This attack suggests the ruling bulk aims to rapidly found a Preliminary Investigation Committee and expedite judicial handling of the cases.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis reshuffled his furniture Friday pursuing the resignation of ministers amid the escalating workplace subsidies scandal.