On May 14, the trial of GSEE president Yiannis Panagopoulos and GSEE’s former general secretary, Nikos Kioutsoukis, will begin at the Three-member Court of Criminal Appeals. This is the case regarding the payment of sums in 2013 to unpaid workers of the Skaramangas shipyards who had undertaken the maintenance of the Navy’s submarines.
The money related to funds from the Employment and Vocational Training Account (LAEK) for which there were complaints from former shipyard workers that, unlike their colleagues, the money had not been paid. These are workers of the Traffic Equipment which had seceded from the shipyards following a political order with the workers of the Traffic Equipment to appeal to Justice and be vindicated.
The two trade unionists are facing the felony offense of “continuous joint infidelity with damage exceeding 120,000 euros”.
In a statement to Documento, the president of GSEE, Yiannis Panagopoulos, claimed that these funds were properly credited to the accounts of unpaid workers, while citing a report by the Court of Auditors according to which, “they were given for an obvious social purpose”.
“The case concerns the transfer to the workers of the Skaramangas shipyards at the time when they were unpaid for 18 months, resources from the Unemployment Account (LAEK), which according to the law is not state funding, in order for these workers to maintain the infamous submarines 214, which were completely abandoned.
In fact, according to the report of the Court of Auditors, this money was credited to the accounts of the employees, while according to the admission of the Court of Auditors, it was given for an obvious social purpose”.
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