PASOK and former OPEKEPE president say technical advisor caused agency decline

A erstwhile president of disgraced workplace subsidies bureau OPEKEPE has blamed the agency’s diminution connected a backstage institution that enjoyed the backing of erstwhile cultivation curate Makis Voridis.

Speaking earlier a parliamentary committee looking into the scandal, Grigoris Varras said helium was removed from his presumption when helium raised his concerns astir Neuropublic, which helium alleged was handed implicit power implicit the agency.
When helium tried to intervene, Varras said helium faced absorption from the erstwhile curate and was subsequently removed from his position.

He alleged that successful 2021, when different company, Synelichis, won a tender to enactment arsenic technical advisor to OPEKEPE, unit was enactment connected the caller consulting institution and Neuropublic returned to its advisory role.

OPEKEPE, primitively liable for managing and distributing cultivation subsidies, has been astatine the halfway of a large ungraded involving amerciable payments. Since past year, it has been successful the quality owed to a large-scale fraud lawsuit involving thousands of taxpayers who received millions of euros successful fraudulent subsidies, mostly successful Crete.