The AADE disciplinary council found Paraskevi Tychopoulou, former director of Internal Audit at OPEKEPE, not guilty of the disciplinary offences attributed to her.
The five-member Disciplinary Council of the Independent Authority for Public Revenue (AADE), which is now responsible for OPEKEPE’s operations, cleared the organisation’s former director of Internal Audit of the disciplinary offences for which proceedings had been initiated by OPEKEPE’s then head.
Paraskevi Tychopoulou had been accused of breaching her duty of confidentiality and of conduct unbecoming of a civil servant in connection with an audit report on shortcomings in livestock inspections in Crete, which she had submitted at the time to the deputy commissioner of the Court of Audit.
As her lawyer, Mr Vagiannos, points out, the AADE decision clearing her of the disciplinary offences adds to the ruling by the Athens Single-Member Court of First Instance, which found her removal from OPEKEPE’s Directorate of Internal Audit unlawful, abusive and retaliatory.