While the criminal investigation into the tragic incident in Tempe is in full swing, the head of the Anti-Money Laundering Office, Honorary Deputy Prosecutor of the Supreme Court Charalambos Vourliotis, ordered a general financial due diligence for kickbacks at OSE and its subsidiaries. According to the information, the Anti-Money Laundering Authority will check the assets of those who have held positions of responsibility in recent years. RUN, TRAIN, WORK and they went back and forth with contracts and projects for the rail network. The control concerns their property status, real estate and so on, as well as bank accounts, and representatives of companies and contractors who have carried out projects on the railway network will also be checked. At the same time, a financial audit will also be carried out in relation to the heads of the company’s management (Italian interests) Greek train. The Agency’s investigation is aimed at establishing wrongdoings such as bribes (i.e. kickbacks), but also money laundering.

The judiciary is talking about the chain of responsibility and those responsible for the tragic incident in Tempi, who are actively involved in the investigations in order to find out the causes of the tragedy as soon as possible. “One defendant leads us to another” a source in court told K. with knowledge of investigative work, clearly implying that the three new defendants who have already left the investigation will not be the last.

Already now, in addition to the head of the station Larisa, who was taken into custody, three more people are in the spotlight. criminal liability: the traffic inspector who was the man who sent the stationmaster alone to the night shifts, despite being extremely inexperienced, and two more stationmasters who had to remain at their post until 23:00 and, unfortunately, left earlier.

The organization of shifts, the selection of station chiefs at critical moments in the movement of trains, compliance with the protocol with strict observance of traffic safety rules are the key points on which an investigative investigation is being carried out for criminal liability. stages of responsibility. investigations now they are turning to a more central level to ascertain whether everything necessary for the safe passage of trains has been observed and, above all, whether those who have been appointed as stationmasters have been correct. And this despite the fact that the list of station masters was checked at the central level in the EfE before its implementation by others, except for the inspector. That is, a second eye appeared.

Appellate Investigators

It is expected that in the coming days the apologies of the three new defendants will be completed by the appellate instance investigators elected yesterday at the plenary session of the appellate court and to whom the investigator will pass the torch. However, forensic sources said “K”. an assessment according to which, after yesterday’s selection of two appeals, which will take over the investigation from next week, the picture of the perpetrators of the tragedy in Larisa will be clarified no later than Easter. The plenary session of the Court of Appeal of Larisa, which took place yesterday, unanimously elected Sotirios Bakaimis as the investigator of the case, and the appellant Sofia Limberiada as his deputy. The plenary session was convened on the initiative of the head of the Larissa Appellate Prosecutor’s Office, Stamatis Daskalopoulos, a prosecutor with great experience, who led all the investigative work from the first moment of the tragic events. The chosen investigator is said to have investigative experience, having previously worked as an investigator in Thessaloniki for a long time.

And while criminal investigations into the causes of the tragedy in the area of ​​​​responsibility of the employees and maintenance personnel of the GSO “run” quickly, investigations into the imposition of responsibility at high levels of the Organization, which should have prepared a plan for the safe operation of the railway network, which is expected to follow. Judicial sources noted on this occasion in “K” that “Justice will not repeat past mistakes, attributing criminal liability in the critical phase of the mourning period, which then will not stand and fall”, thereby declaring the intention of the judiciary to bring charges that will stand in court and lead to guilty verdicts.