“I would like to thank the Speaker of the Hellenic Parliament, the President and the members of the Hellenic Parliament’s Truth Committee on Public Debt, Mr. Toussaint and the members from all the countries who are today present here, at the Ministry of National Defence.

It is true that the Ministry of National Defence was used in 2009 for the inflation of statistical data and Greece’s entry to the support mechanism. With a committee which has worked for a few days supervised by Ms. Zoe Georganta – who had reported the manipulation of statistics – we have already found, in the three contracts we had the time to examine, that the public debt in 2009 was inflated, illegally and in breach of Eurostat’s conditions, by 3.1 billion Euros so that Greece would be forced to enter the support mechanism and the era of the memoranda, so that Greece would be led to the pauperization of its people.

The audit carries on. I would like to tell you that the financial data are forwarded to the Hellenic Parliament’s Truth Committee on Public Debt and the criminal elements are forwarded to the Greek Justice. Naturally, we will care for more than the punishment of those who used the Greek people’s concern for the protection of territorial integrity and national sovereignty; we will also proceed to the country’s compensation.

I would also like to say that I mentioned to the Committee and to the Speaker that the issue of the equipments is major, not only for Greece, but also for other supplier countries. Corruption is like the tango, it always takes two. We can see here that there are contracts we don’t even have invoices for, there are contracts for which the corruptors are protected by the countries who, with the capacity of lenders, want to control Greece for its corruption; there are huge amounts of money that were pushed to the Press, to a specific part of the Press that is presently used as a means to hit the current Government; however, there is also an effort made globally to reveal the mechanisms who lead the peoples to losing their national sovereignty. We shall continue this task with the Committee.

Once more, I would like to thank in particular Greece’s foreign friends, whom I asked to never abandon this huge effort that is not only to the benefit of Democracy and the Greeks, but also to the benefit of Democracy throughout Europe and the world”.