FINANCIAL CORRUPTION IN THE TUNE OF MILLIONS OF EUROS IN THE #GFC #GREEKFILMCENTER THE STATE BODY THAT HANDLES TAXPAYERS' MONEY? Silver Bear winner for "Rebetiko" director #CostasFerris, a former member of the board of directors of state body Greek Film Center, thinks so.
Here's an exceprt of his interview to journalists Yiorgos Petropoulos and Dimitri Kanellopoulos of the indie newspaper
www.efsyn.gr
"QUESTION:
It was written in electronic media that the relevant findings are kept
is in the drawer of the Minister of Culture (Mrs. Lina Mendoni) and must
be given to the public prosecutor because criminal responsibilities for
previous administrations of the Greek Film Center arise. What exactly
is the truth?
Costas Ferris: In these findings, persons from the
current Greek Film Center administration are involved, and is
absolutely certain that the (current) Holevas administration had an
obligation by law to deliver them directly to the Public Prosecutor.
This
omission is a conscious criminal offense with a possibility of the
intentiom of fraud and implies an ex officio intervention by the Public
Prosecutor. The forner President of Greek Film Center Panos Loukakos and
Vice-President Christina Manolopoulou (after our resignation) sent to
the Minister of Culture a memorandum mentioning these (financial) crimes
and the (3 different auditors reports), together with many other
violations of the law, to the new administration under Mr. Markos
Holevas. This memorandum is included in my recent public letter that
some journalists omitted (from publication). I do not know whether Mr.
Holevas informed the Minister. I know, however, that the Director
General of Greek Film Center Pantelis Mitropoulos failed to sign the
findings (according to the law that is his legal obligation) and the
legal adviser to the GFC Mr. Pericles Polychronidis was fired by Mr
Cholevas and the current administration.
What is more than certain
is that Mr. Holevas did not forward the findings to the competent
prosecutor, as the report of the State's General Accounting Authority
and, as the Minister has ordered. Instead, he handed the two legal
reports to another lawyer of his own choice, Mr. Alexandros Christidis,
to cover up. And, of course, he did not inform the Minister that in
lawyer's Asprogeraka-Grivas' report, as in the findings of State
Auditors, Certified Accountants and Financial Inspectors Batsouli,
Androutsos and Triantafyllou, there's possibly (!) mentioning of his
personal involvement and the right thing to do would be to resign
immediately immediately in order to assist the pending investigation
within the Greek Film Center!
But he had preceded the concealment from the current administration of the Ministry of Culture of the fact that he had an open court dispute with the GFC and therefore should not have accepted his appointment (as President) from the very beginning, as laid down in Article 20 of law 3905/2010. Two acts of unlawfulness (and violations of the Penal code) within one week! These are outrageous things. "