“This is one of the dirtiest and most falsified political attacks by the Mitsotakis system against a political opponent,” emphasizes Yannis Ragousis, Head of Transparency of SYRIZA-PS, in a statement.

“After being irreparably exposed with the lies about the OEK loan and the allegedly inaccurate Pothen Esches, today they are daring the unthinkable”, he notes and adds:

“They cannot accuse me that, as a member of parliament, I appointed my children to the public office in a corrupt manner. Because I didn’t appoint them. They cannot accuse me that in an EFKA or SEPE echelon check – one of the permanent ones that take place in the summer – my children were found to be working without insurance in my business, with the aim of tax evasion by me at the expense of EFKA. Because nothing like this ever happened. They dare to accuse me of fictitious, illegal employment of my children in my sole proprietorship.”

As he claims, “the pinnacle of their fraud is that they resort to falsification and falsification of the meaning of documents as follows: On the 1st and 12th pages of the newspaper Apogeumatini, they show a document from the OAED (not from the EFKA) which has the term “fictitious announcement” underlined , wanting to create the false impression that this refers to me, to a false recruitment of my children, therefore to an alleged “fraud” that they falsely claim in their title, that I have committed”.

“On the contrary”, he explains, “as evidenced by the official document of the OAED on gov.gr that I am attaching, the term “fictitious advertisement in the case of a first subsidy” in no way means a fake or fictitious recruitment. It has a completely different meaning and content, it does not concern me, it is purely official and concerns the way the OAED services themselves operate.”

Continuing, G. Ragousis states: “Furthermore, in order for you to understand how much they underestimate the intelligence of their readers, they have the audacity to display decisions of the Ministry of Labor itself, from the year 2022, i.e. during the ND government, which validate the decision to integrate children to the subsidy of the OAED and they do not reject them as virtual”.

“And really, if their hiring was illegal, why does the OAED continue to provide them with unemployment benefits?”, he wonders.

“In any case, together with me, the Mitsotakis system accuses and slanders the thousands of family tourism businesses in Greece, which employ their children in them. They dare and accuse me that my 2 children, students 25 and 23 years old, instead of working seasonally in other companies, for the last two years have worked with full insurance in my business, enabling me for the first time since 2014, not to be employed me with the multiple tasks required at all times, every day, every season, in order to provide a quality and high level tourism product”, he notes, pointing out that “according to the labor law and correctly, my children, because they are first degree relatives , they would not be able to register as part-time workers, so that I would pay only 50% of the employer’s contributions, while my children would enjoy full OAED rights from the unemployment fund.”

“For this reason, as first-degree relatives, they were obliged by labor law to register with EFKA as full-time employees and I was charged with 100% of the employer’s contributions. In fact, according to the existing labor law and again correctly, for the 2021 season, because they worked for the first time, although I was burdened with full employer contributions, my children were not entitled to and did not receive the unemployment benefit.

And their salary, which was entered in the company’s expenses, was the minimum required by law and not a salary, deliberately inflated to artificially reduce profits, as they slanderously report”, explains G. Ragousis and adds:

“Nothing and no one would have prevented me from registering my children with the basic salary of 713 Euros that I registered them, if I had registered them with a salary of, for example, 2,000 Euros if I had the intention, which is slanderously attributed to me, to inflate the expenses of my individual business”.

“I inform them in advance that for this season my youngest child will work in my business for the first time and not the two older ones as in the previous two years, because they have already signed an agreement with other seasonal businesses, due to better pay,” he adds. ends with a “comment”:

“I feel neither rage nor anger. I feel disgusted and disgusted by the downward spiral of the Mitsotakis system to which the political life of the country is leading.

Mr. Kurtakis, I promise you that you will get tired of meeting me in courtrooms.”