Adonis Georgiades spoke this morning on SKAI television about the lawsuit filed against him by the President of PASOK, following his statements about the property of the Androulakis family in Heraklion, which is leased by the State.
The Health Minister said he has “nothing to fear” from Nikos Androulakis’ legal action, and made it clear that he never attributed criminal responsibility to Androulakis. “I have been quick to say from my first interview that I don’t think he has done anything illegal. I only raise issues of a moral and political nature,” he said.
In fact, he pointed out that the PASOK President was “politically controlled” because, he claimed, his family leased property to the Land Registry in 2010, at a time when the country was entering into memoranda. “His family and he rented a property at the Land Registry, getting 10,000 euros a month,” he said, noting that the amount was reduced during the memorandum period and then restored.
In response to Androulakis’ statements that he receives about 1,000 euros net from the property, Georgiades commented that this obviously refers to his share of the total amount. “Politically, you will excuse me for saying this, it is completely irrelevant,” he stressed.
Georgiadis also argued that the case of Deputy Minister Vassilis Spanakis is not comparable to that of Nikos Androulakis. He said that the lease of the Spanakis family’s property at the ELTA took place in 2000, during the Simitis government, when he was a “very low-ranking member” of the New Democracy Party.
In contrast, for the Androulakis family, he claimed that in 2010 “they were the strongest PASOK family in Heraklion, Crete”, and said the property was chosen on October 7, 2009, a few days after the elections that year.
