Ex-SYRIZA Minister gets 70,000 lump sum amid capital controls

Theano Fotiou, who served as deputy Minister for Employment and Social Solidarity under the left government SYRIZA received a lump sum of 70,000 Euros before leaving her ministerial post and while the capital controls were in effect for the rest of the Greeks. More specifically, on July 21 2015 a command to issue an insurance grant from the Public Servants’ Providence Fund was signed with a money order worth 69,367 Euros to Fotiou after her retirement as a professor at the Metsovio National Polytechnic University. The former Minister was very ‘lucky’ as applications for the issuance of lump sums for public servants had frozen, with nearly 31,500 cases pending. The average waiting period for clearance is between 2 to 4 years.