“Right now we are doing the most checks for corruption that have ever been done in the history of the Greek state,” noted the Minister of Development and Investments, Adonis Georgiadis in an interview today, on the SKAI 100.3 radio station.
In particular, answering a question about the controls related to the phenomenon of dirty money, the minister said: “We are constantly checking. In a parliamentary question about how many gas stations we had checked, we answered 156. Some thought that this number was small. I inform you that 156 gas stations have not been inspected during the entire four-year period of SYRIZA. Right now we are doing the most inspections for profiteering that have ever been done in the history of the Greek state.”
Regarding the opposition’s criticism of the Fuel Pass, he noted: “Whatever benefits the Government gives to our fellow citizens, for the opposition they will always be “crumbs”. Here we gave the pandemic 43 billion and they still called it “crumbs”. The Fuel Pass was designed from the beginning to roughly bring the monthly cost down to a price per liter about 15 to 20 minutes down the line, that was the logic.”
More generally, regarding the course of the economy, the minister said: “Certainly things are not easy in terms of inflation and what is happening in the economy, but on the other hand, the news in our economy is not only negative. Greece in 2022 will have the second year in a row one of the highest growth rates in the entire European Union. We are experiencing record tourist receipts, record exports and record investments.”
Also, when asked about the course of tourism, he noted: “What Greece has achieved in the last three years and we are building for the coming years is that we no longer aim so much at the number of arrivals but at attracting higher tourism income. This is how we have managed to we are bringing chains to Greece, which as the investments mature will attract tourists who have more money to spend. Greece is slowly conquering this”.
Finally, regarding the complaint of Mr. Androulakis regarding the attempt to trap his mobile phone, the minister said:
“First of all, the complaint is serious and must certainly be investigated. But is the issue of complaints of monitoring a mobile phone only a Greek issue? In the last 1.5 years, relevant complaints have been made to the European Parliament, as Mr. Androulakis’ complaint is with the MEP capacity. We are in an age where someone can get this malware, which does surveillance. That is the problem with modern technology. Anyone who has such a complaint should be investigated, but let’s not make it all a political issue .
Source: Capital
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