The ownership of one of Greece’s four television channels broadcasting nationwide by the Kalogritsas family is “a plan of specific ministers and specific journalists” linked to the SYRIZA party, opposition Potami leader Stavros Theodorakis claimed in Parliament on Tuesday. He predicted that more will be revealed over the next few days and that “the Kalogritsas family, pressured by the events, will soon reveal who involved them in this comic affair...”
Theodorakis noted that easy bank credit to construction companies like that owned by Kalogritsas was “a well-known trick of ruling parties” in Greece.
“We support some contractors so they will support us, in other words finance us, in their turn,” Theodorakis said, adding that ruling coalition SYRIZA had “done the same thing“.
“It hands over money, many millions, to its own contractors. We demand that the Bank of Greece report on Attica Bank’s financing of various contractors come to Parliament. But the plan for ‘Kalogritsas TV’ was not the family’s. The idea and the plan belonged to specific ministers and specific party journalists of SYRIZA,” he claimed.
The Kalogritsas family submitted a successful bid for one of the four television content licences auctioned in recent weeks but questions have since arisen concerning how this money was raised and the involvement of Attica Bank.
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