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The extension of the timeframe for civil actions against those named among those responsible for the collapse of Synergatism will be discussed next Wednesday by the Legal Affairs Committee of the Parliament, following a proposal by the Parliamentary Group of AKEL.
It is noted that this is the second time this year that such a proposal is being debated, while when it was tabled last year before the plenary session of the Parliament, it was unanimously voted for. As AKEL MP Aristos Damianou said in a statement today, the proposal will be submitted in the form of urgent procedure next Wednesday before the Legal Affairs Committee of the Parliament and next Thursday it will be put to a vote.
Mr. Damianou explained that the Parliamentary Group of AKEL has again made this proposal, since, as he said, "to date we have not seen legal measures being taken by filing lawsuits against the perpetrators of the Synergatis scandal and, as is well known, based on the law on the statute of limitations for actionable offences within three years from the completion of the basis of a lawsuit, within which a lawsuit must be brought" and the risk that these actionable rights will be barred and that those named as culprits will not be brought to justice in civil actions is visible.
According to him, the extension for non-expiry of the statute of limitations for actionable rights is intended to enable both citizens and the state, if they consider that this basis for action exists, to bring the perpetrators of the scandal to justice in civil actions.
"Both the finding on the collapse of the Co-operative and subsequent events clearly photograph or name the perpetrators who led to both the sell-off and the collapse of the Co-operative." He stressed and concluded that "what is needed, apart from legislation, is to have the necessary institutional and political will to bring to justice those who sold out the Co-operative and here is the great deficit of this government."
Source: CNA
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