The 11 members of the New Democracy Party, involved in one of the cases of the OPEKEPE case, are asking for their immunity to be lifted, pleading not guilty.
Nine out of 11 MPs gave explanations to the House Ethics Committee, submitting a memorandum, according to the SKAI report, while former ministers Costas Tsiaras and Notis Mitarakis were present.
Note that the European Public Prosecutor’s Office has asked the Greek Parliament for permission to prosecute
-for the acts punishable as felonies:
1, 98 and 390 para. 2, 24 par. 4 and 26 para. 1 and 3 of Law 4689/2020) against the sitting MPs Ekaterini Papakosta of Demetrios and Konstantinos Karamanlis of Achilles,
2) instigating a computer fraud (Articles 26(a), 27, 46 par. 1 and 386A para. 1 and 3 of the Criminal Code, in conjunction with Art. 26 par. 1 and 3 of Law 4689/2020), against Ekaterini Papakosta of Demetrios and
3) of instigating a false statement (Art. 26(a), 27, 46 par. 1 and 252 par. 1, 3 and 5 of the Criminal Code, in conjunction with Art. 26 par. 3 of Law 4689/2020) against Ekaterini Papakosta of Demetrios,
-as well as for the misdemeanor offences:
4) instigating fraud against the financial interests of the EU, whether committed jointly and severally, whether committed repeatedly or not (Articles 26(a), 27, 45, 45, 46(a), 46(b), 46(c), 46(c), 46(c), 46(c), 46(c), 46(c), 46(c), 46(c), 46(c), 46(c) and 46(c)). 1, 98 and 390 para. 1a PC, in conjunction with Art. 21 par. 2, 24 par. 4 and 26 para. 1 Ν. 4689/2020) against the sitting MPs Panagiotis Mitarakis of Antonios, Konstantinos Tsiaras of Alexandros, Konstantinos Skrekas of Theodoros, Ioannis Kefalogiannis of Achilles, Demetrios Vartzopoulos of Chrysostomos, Vasileios Vassiliadis of Nikolaos, Maximos Senetakis of Georgios, Christos Boukorou of Georgios and Theophilos Leonontaridis of Christos, so that the European Public Prosecutor’s Office may, among other things, carry out investigative acts concerning the persons of the above-mentioned Members of Parliament (e.g.
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