[Cyprus Times] Irini Charalambidou raises the issue of Giannakis to the Audit Committee

Irini Charalambidou raises the issue of Giannakis to the Audit Committee regarding the handling of the Youth Organization

Irini Charalambidou raises the issue of Giannakis to the Audit Committee.

As the AKEL MP says in a written statement, "in May 2021, the Audit Office reported to the police that the former Volunteerism Commissioner may have forged his university degree and high school diploma. After a year of procrastination, the case was finally filed in Court. But this is not enough," he stresses.

He adds that "we will wait to see whether the former Commissioner has received favourable treatment in terms of the charges brought against him and the seriousness that the prosecution will attach to them by requesting that the case be heard by the competent Court of Cassation."

He notes that today the Audit Office has highlighted yet another aspect "and this I will ask to be discussed in the Parliamentary Audit Committee where I will register the matter: The Cyprus Youth Organization, which is the employer of the former Commissioner for Volunteerism, must take civil action against him and demand the return of all money received by this person claiming he was a civil engineer when he was not.

The EY has no authority with respect to the handling of the criminal prosecution against the former Volunteer Commissioner.

We do, however, have supervisory authority, and will exercise it, with respect to the handling of any civil claims by the Youth Agency (as employer) against the former Commissioner.

- AUDIT OFFICE OF CYPRUS (@Audit_Office_Cy) June 4, 2022

As a member of the Parliamentary Audit Committee, I will ask for this matter to be registered so that the Committee can be informed and exercise its parliamentary scrutiny," he concludes.

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