Answer to Adonis Georgiadis on the occasion of the statements he made in the morning to SKAI, the coordinator of SYRIZA-PS sector heads gave, Pavlos Polakis.

In his statement he states: “This morning, the permanent guest of SKAI, Mr. Adonis Georgiadis, had the audacity in his interview to talk about virtual invoices at KEELPNO during my tenure. He is talking about ‘virtual’ invoices who, during his tenure at KEELPNO, signed 875 contracts, even with non-existent websites, giving 8 million euros of black political money. I am referring to KEELPNO’s advertising campaign, where in the name of Public Health it financed the media (then there was no pandemic and no Petsa list). He is talking about ‘virtual’ invoices, the one who took 22 transferred employees to the Ministry of Health through illegal recruitments of KEELPNO, which were carried out with the help of the ‘lentil’ boy and associate of ‘Adoni, Mr. Poulis. The specific case is being heard these days in the courts and Adoni’s company is facing accusations of criminal acts of disloyalty, with the financial damage estimated for KEELPNO at around 250,000 euros. Adonis himself should have been indicted for this specific case, but due to the double elections of 2015, the case was time-barred based on the law on the responsibility of ministers. The ‘virtual’ invoices that ‘Adonis’ talked about today, concern security services provided by a contractor, who was hired at KEELPNO during the tenure of D. Avramopoulos. This contractor continued to offer security services during the tenure of A. Loverdou, A. Lykouretzou, A. Georgiadis and M. Voridis. The specific contractor was removed during my tenure, both from the YY (2016), and from all the structures of KEELPNO and EOPYY (2017). It really takes courage to speak about the contractors, the minister who, 5 days after assuming his duties at the Ministry of Health, reinstated the contractor at the hospital of Agios Savvas, firing 58 cleaners, even addressing the minister who “wage war” to expel the contractors from the hospitals”.

Referring to the actions of SYRIZA, he notes: “I am really proud because under the SYRIZA government, after a battle with the system of contractors who lived on public money at the expense of the workers, after being vindicated by the European Courts, we expelled the contractors from 77 hospitals of the country and it is a given that if we won the elections within the next year there would be no contractor left in the field of Health. The world knows and remembers Mr. Georgiadis, that the filing of responsibilities for the Novartis scandal, on the grounds of ‘unspecified amounts’ and ‘characteristic deafness’, are a global procedural precedent. However, they are not an acquittal.”

Concluding, Mr. Polakis argues: “All this commotion caused by Adonis today is to divert the conversation and not to respond to the recent revelations regarding the change of attitude of EODY (former KEELPNO), which against previous decision of the Board, decided not to be legally represented in the trial for the illegal recruitments and not to proceed with a statement of representation in support of the charge. Of course, this change in EODY’s attitude took place after Adoni’s move to the Ministry of Health and the meeting he had with the president and CEO of EODY”.

Earlier he had also posted on social media in which he responded to Adonis Georgiadis.