On the agenda of the Parliamentary Audit Committee was officially the issue of the actions of the Cyprus Youth Organization to claim compensation from the former Commissioner for Volunteerism, Yiannakis Yiannakis, who allegedly obtained his appointment with forged certificates.
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As AKEL MP Irini Charalambidou said in a statement, who registered the issue, AKEL, DIKO, EDEK and the Movement of Ecologists - Citizens' Co-operation were in favour of the registration and discussion of the issue.
In her letter to committee chairman Zacharias Koulias, Ms Charalambidou said that the referral of Mr Giannakis to the Court, following allegations by the Audit Service that he may have forged his university degree and high school diploma "is not enough". She cited the Audit Service's remarks that "the Youth Agency, which is the employer of the former Commissioner for Volunteerism, should take civil action against him and demand the return of all money received by that person, claiming he was a civil engineer when he was not."
In her remarks in Parliament, Ms. Haaralambidou also referred to the Attorney General's choice that the whole case be tried by a District Court and not by a Court of Cassation.
"This is a matter for the Attorney General, he has the unaccountability, we will try through the Youth Organization to see if he can move on civil, if you will, lawsuits to recover the money that was given to him and should never have been given to him, nor should he have been able to serve."
Source: CNA
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