The disciplinary council of Greece’s tax authority AADE has dismissed a motion against Paraskevi (Vivi) Tycheropoulou, a former auditor of the disgraced OPEKEPE agency, for the alleged offenses of breach of confidentiality and conduct unbecoming of an employee.
Tycheropoulou was a key witness in the ongoing investigation by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO), and among the first officials at OPEKEPE to notice discrepancies in payments and uncover how the complex scheme was set up.
Her lawyer, Antonis Vagianos, said Tuesday the motion against his client was submitted because, in her then capacity as director of internal audit in OPEKEPE, she delivered an audit report detailing the discrepancies to the Deputy Commissioner of the Court of Audit.
“This was how the administrations of OPEKEPE handled the submission of audit findings to the competent audit authority: by prosecuting and punishing the employee who submitted them. The unanimous acquittal of Mrs Tycheropoulou serves as yet another significant vindication for her,” he said in a statement.
The motion had been launched against her in September 2024 by the former head of OPEKEPE, Kyriakos Babasidis, after he was ousted from the agency amid the inquiry into widespread misuse of European farm subsidies. After Babassidis’ dismissal, his successor, Nikos Salatas, assumed responsibility for the case and imposed a 20-day salary suspension against Tycheropoulou.
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