2024-03-08 08:48:09
With the well-known “other words to… love each other”, Minister Giorgos Papakonstantinou responded to the revelation of “democracy” about the… gift of 200,000 euros he made to an IT company and which was brought to the Parliament with his question by the deputy of the Finance Department of the New Democracy Yiannis Brutsis.
According to our publication and the question of Mr. Vroutsis, the Minister of Finance, while asking citizens and businesses for even the last euro and the State imposes usurious interest rates in case of delays, by his decision had reduced the imposition of the 400,000 clause euros in half, essentially giving away 200,000 euros. For the company UNISYSTEMS INFORMATION SYSTEMS S.A.E., which had undertaken the project, after an audit by the project acceptance committee, it was found that 87,241 E9 declarations were not linked to the system due to its fault. After that and with the signature of Papakonstantinou, a fine of 400,000 euros was imposed on the company. Then the minister revoked his initial decision and made… a discount of 200,000 euros.
Responding in the Parliament to the question of the deputy head of the Department of Finance of the ND. Giannis Vroutsis, Mr. Papakonstantinou admitted the accuracy of the publication and said that the penalty clause of 400,000 euros was indeed imposed on the contractor company.
UNISYSTEMS then appealed to the appellate committee, which also ruled that the same clause of 400,000 euros should be imposed.
Then the Minister of Finance tried to justify the unreasonableness of the… discount of 200,000 euros that he made personally ignoring the decisions of the State bodies and his ministry.
As an alibi he uses that “the new evidence and submitted arguments and the principles of good administration, proportionality and commercial ethics, the non-express contractual provision of enforcing a clause for the specific omissions were taken into account”. Mr. Papaconstantinou left the good for the end, as he claims that “the excessive damage to the State from the visible risk of further delays and time-consuming conflicts of doubtful outcome was taken into account”.
Another crucial element is missing from Mr. Papakonstantinou’s essentially non-answer. Did UNISYSTEMS IT SYSTEMS AEE finally pay the clause of even 200,000 euros? Or is she also unclaimed and neither cat nor damage? We hope this time Mr. Papakonstantinou will answer…
Nikos Eleftheroglou
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