“The Ministry of Development is responsible for the regulatory framework, the legislation and not the control of the implementation of the provisions of public contracts,” said Development Minister Takis Theodorikakos, answering a timely question by the President of Freedom Freedom, Zoe Konstantopoulou for Report of the Court of Auditors for public contracts.

Mr. Theodorikakos emphasized that transparency everywhere, for everyone and everything, is a fundamental principle for both himself and the government as a whole and in matters of morality and legality there can be no discounts. He recalled the recent legislative initiative of the Ministry of Development, which created a special body of civil servants, trained appropriately for the conclusion and monitoring of public contracts and instituted wherever you have been for all public officials involved, in addition to those who were in charge. He even referred to the 1,400 investment plans for older development laws that were not completed and with the legislation of the Ministry of Development, they are dismissed “to quickly run the process of returning hundreds of millions of euros to the Greek State funds”.

Concerning the Court of Auditors’ report, the Minister of Development replied that “the pre -contractual audit is mandatory prior to the signing of a contract, from 300,000 euros by the Court of Auditors Commissioner, from € 1,700,000 from a step in terms of money from national resources and more than 5m euros in money. There is a contract signed. He even called on Mrs Konstantopoulou if any illegality had existed to report her publicly and testify to the prosecutor.

In his discipline, Mr. Theodorikakos stressed that “my firm position is that throwing mud in the fan is not good for democracy. Your phrase ‘how much more will eat’ is extreme and slanderous position and offers nothing to the role of democracy and responsibility.

Finally, with regard to OPEKEPE, he replied that government position in practice is one and clear: “Bring back the stolen”. And he continued that the government would also be judged for its effectiveness, stating that “it is a matter of credibility of our policy that money is starting to refund and start the judicial proceedings against those who stole the Greek and the European taxpayer and have wronged our farmers”.