SYRIZA heavyweight covers up public works scandal… with liquid paper!

Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) deputy Alekos Flambouraris, accused of commissioning a 3.9-mln-euros public works contract to his own company, Diatmisi S.A., while MP is doing all he can to cast doubt on his links with the company and deflect Proto Thema’s revelations. The public sector contract that bears his name as major shareholder, signed May 20 while he was still an MP, is swept aside by the SYRIZA heavyweight in an announcement that denounes the attack against him as slanderous.

His written statement on Wednesday warns of his intent to take the matter to court if the newspaper persists in its accusations.

He pointed out that he ceased to be a member of the board of the construction company he founded after he was appointed a minister in Alexis Tsipras’ cabinet. He resigned on January 26 following the success of his party in the elections, sold his shares and filed for a pension… despite the fact that his name was on the public works contract on behalf of the construction company signed May 20.

He states:

“The unethical attack against me on Tuesday by the electronic and print media is politically motivated and slanderous, aiming at my political and personal downfall and to tear down the indisputable moral advantage of the left and SYRIZA so as to launder four decades of corruption and graft by the bankrupt political system.”

He supplied nine documents in Greek to highlight his case. The private contract supposedly transferred the shares to his close colleague Yiannis Kottaridis and placed his son Michalis Flambouraris Retsina as VP.

The contract was witnessed by a police officer on duty at the time it was presented for a stamp and was not submitted to the tax bureau or affirmed by a notary. For this reason, doubt is cast on its legality.

Furthermore, the share register that shows the supposed transfer of shares raises more questions than it answers due to the fact that certain parts have been erased using liquid paper.

Documents submitted by Flambouraris: