“We failed. Trading for a few votes is unacceptable.” Mitsotakis knew everything about the OPEKEPE scandal. There are more scandals, at least two more to be revealed, and there are elections on the horizon as we Tanea.com.au predicted with this article.
This is Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s latest statement on the OPEKEPE scandal — a familiar attempt to present himself as uninvolved. From initially describing the scandal as a “long-standing problem,” the Prime Minister has now shifted to an admission of “failure,” yet one carefully stripped of any suggestion of criminal liability.
But the evidence paints a very different picture — one of full knowledge, complicity, and attempted cover-up.
Following the release of damning conversations between senior New Democracy figures, and videos showing Mitsotakis himself socialising with the perpetrators — the so-called “butchers” — the Prime Minister is again trying to take refuge in supposed ignorance. Apparently, he never imagined his close associates were this corrupt—or that his own ministers would orchestrate such fraud for a few votes. A transactional scandal with serious consequences, not merely a political mistake.
Documento is in possession of compelling evidence that Kyriakos Mitsotakis knew everything. He was aware of the wiretaps. He was aware of the players. And he was informed long before the public was.
We present the following indisputable facts:
Two deputy ministers, dismissed over the scandal, had expected cabinet promotions in June 2024. According to leaks (not just to Documento), they were informed of their removal by Giorgos Mylonakis. He told them they had been implicated in wiretapped conversations relating to the OPEKEPE affair. This proves that the Prime Minister’s Office was aware of official surveillance evidence over a year ago, and that two government members were directly involved.
Key questions arise:
In what official capacity did Mylonakis have access to classified surveillance information?
If Mitsotakis knew of the wiretaps, why were Maki Voridis and the implicated deputies appointed to ministerial positions?
Unless we are to believe that Giorgos Mylonakis, the Prime Minister’s most trusted aide, withheld such explosive information — which seems implausible — then the implication is that Mitsotakis was fully briefed.
Grigoris Varas, former OPEKEPE president and close friend of Mitsotakis, was ousted when he refused to cover up the scandal. Together with whistleblower employee Tycheropoulou, he attempted to expose the fraud. After being forced to resign under pressure from the very network now labelled a “criminal organisation” by the European Public Prosecutor, Varas was given a position at the Prime Minister’s Office.
There, he reportedly briefed Mylonakis on the scandal, the Voridis signatures, and the Avgenakis transactions.
Did Mitsotakis ignore Varas — a man he respected — or is he pretending not to know? He must answer this publicly.
The most damning revelations, however, come from within Lefteris Avgenakis’s own camp. Avgenakis is not suspected — he is documented: emails and video evidence show that he personally authorised the unblocking of 5,300 fraudulent tax IDs in Crete, the core mechanism of the OPEKEPE fraud.
His associates now openly state that before the 2023 elections, he met with Mitsotakis at Maximos Mansion, in the presence of Mylonakis and Voridis. At that meeting, he briefed the Prime Minister on the blocked IDs and the political implications. According to these accounts, Mitsotakis gave the green light, allegedly saying: “Go ahead, Lefteris.”
These same sources add that this is why Avgenakis later made public statements supporting the move — if the Prime Minister disagreed, why didn’t he intervene or contradict him?
For over a year, Mitsotakis has not only been aware of the scandal and the investigation, but has also been engaged in systematically discrediting the European Public Prosecutor’s Office. The Minister of Justice, Giorgos Floridis, has led a campaign of smears and obstruction — in what can only be described as an attempted institutional sabotage.
If this does not constitute a deliberate attempt to cover up a crime, what does?
P.S. One unpredictable factor remains: Makis Voridis. Should he decide to speak, he may well expose what really happened behind the closed doors of the Prime Minister’s Office — and whose orders were being followed…Read more on Tanea.com.au
