Yesterday,
Greek Corruption Prosecutors raided the family home of Bank of Greece
governor Yannis Stournaras, under an investigation concerning a
company linked to the central banker's wife Stavroula
Nikolopoulou-Stournara.
As amna.gr
reports:
Greek Corruption Prosecutors on
Thursday raided the family home of Bank of Greece governor Yannis
Stournaras, in connection with an investigation into advertising
spending by the Hellenic Centre for Disease Control and Prevention
(HCDCP), received by a company linked to the central banker's wife
Stavroula Nikolopoulou-Stournara. Sources said the prosecutors
conducting the raid confiscated documents and electronic files
related to the activities of Nikolopoulou-Stournara's company and
its dealings with the HCDCP.
[...]
This is the second investigation
concerning the HCDCP's advertising spending, following an
investigation that culminated in the prosecution of the agency's
director and board members in 2015 for breach of faith, concerning
their actions in the years 2011-2013.
Based on evidence collected by the
corruption prosecutors in that case, which is now in the hands of
an examining magistrate , the HCDCP spent sums greater than 2.0
million euros on messages to inform the public about health
issues, such as the seasonal flu and others, which could have been
broadcast without charge as public service messages. In addition,
the investigators discovered irregularities in some of the related
tender procedures, while in one case the contract was awarded to a
company that should have been ruled out for non-payment of social
insurance contributions.
[...]
... the prime minister and central
banker agreed that this is an investigation by independent
justice, in which both have confidence.
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As mentioned
in a previous article, the
Bank of Greece is totally beyond the state control and therefore it
is totally unreliable to serve country's interests. It has been
mentioned also that a key move by the Greek government would be to
take full control of the central bank.
It is worth
to notice that under the "Socialist" PM, Kostas Simitis,
Greece entered the neoliberal era of banking lending and bubble
economy. He and his "close group" in the government are
remembered as the "modernizers", and this period marked the
beginning of transformation of the Socialist party into a neoliberal
political formation. In essence, "modernization" was the
word that had been used instead of "neoliberalism". Yannis
Stournaras, former Minister of Finance and current Governor of the
Bank of Greece, who has been the most willing to adopt the
destructive neoliberal policies that the Troika lenders imposed to
Greece, has also worked as a financial advisor for the Greek Ministry
of Finance, participating in the negotiations for Greece's entry into
the European Monetary Union, under Simitis administration.
Also,
current Greek PM Alexis Tsipras, as an opposition leader in the
recent past, described Yannis Stournaras as “the main executor
of the death contract against Greek society and Greek citizens”,
while SYRIZA had tabled a motion of no-confidence in Stournaras during his previous
position as Finance Minister.
Note also
that Stournaras has been placed in his position as Governor of the
Bank of Greece already since June 2014, while the political system in
Greece was preparing for possible national elections, with SYRIZA
ahead in all polls. Obviously, he is the man of the ECB and Berlin in
Greece (a common practice
in other eurozone countries too), to make sure that the country will
stay imprisoned inside the sado-monetarist prison of euro.
Recall that
certain circles were promoting Stournaras as a potential new
PM-technocrat, like Papademos, in case of a new political "crisis"
in Greece, which could be provoked of course by the EFD/IMF/ECB
centers and their Greek agents.
In previous
years, anyone involved with the corrupted system of the ruling
political elite, expressed through the Popular Right (New Democracy),
and the Social-Democrats (PASOK), was enjoying a kind of exclusion
from the scrutiny of justice. Tsipras may simply let the Greek
justice free to do its job, so that to find evidence to prosecute
Stournaras and put a favorable person in his position. This would be
a further key step to loosen the stifling control of the ECB.
Quite
recently, Slovenia showed signs of resistance against the ECB dictatorship. Maybe it's
time for Greece and others to join the resistance ...
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