What is the meaning "arrange payment to the cabinet man" if the document is
an e-mail and part of a file concerning illegal payments and bribes, sent by
the Public Prosecutor to the Investigating Commitee of the Parliament?
Translator's version: arrange payment for a member of the
Cabinet
Ruling party's version: arrange payment for a member of the
Cabinet
Opposition party's version: arrange payment for the cabinet maker
"Cabinet" or "cabinet" it seems that the recipent of the document in
question handled cash-for-contracts money after all:
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_1_03/06/2010_117460
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Siemens spotlight on Samaras
PASOK calls for ND leader to explain e-mail from relative at firm
suggesting link with Christoforakos
An e-mail exchange between New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras and a
relative who worked at Siemens Hellas came to light yesterday as part of
Parliament's investigation into the cash-for-contracts scandal, prompting
PASOK to suggest that the conservative politician should appear at the
inquiry and the opposition party to accuse the Socialists of playing
political games.
It emerged that in 2006, Evangelos Sekeris, an executive at the Greek branch
of Siemens and Samaras's brother-in-law, sent the ND politician, then a
member of the European Parliament, an e-mail concerning his role at the
company. It appears that Sekeris, who had been with Siemens Hellas since
1985, had become frustrated at not climbing the ranks within the company.
In his e-mail on July 31, 2006, Sekeris asked Samaras to speak to then
Siemens Hellas CEO Michalis Christoforakos and argue his case for promotion.
"Christoforakos knows that I know a lot about his dirty tricks but that I
have kept my mouth shut so far," added Sekeris in the message, which also
claimed that Samaras had "opened doors" for Siemens in the past.
PASOK MPs on the investigative committee suggested that Samaras should be
called to answer questions about what links he may have had with Siemens but
ND responded by accusing the Socialists of dragging the inquiry "into the
mire." They said that Samaras did not know Christoforakos but that he did
call the CEO on his brother-in-law's behalf.
Meanwhile, businessman Marios Katsikas appeared before the panel of MPs
yesterday to explain how an e-mail thought to have indicated illicit
payments from Siemens to a member of the previous conservative Cabinet was
actually referring to money that was due to a company making cabinets for
his New York home.
Katsikas, who owns 20 companies, said that in 2003 he had paid a
200,000-euro deposit to a businessman friend for the purchase of a property
near Athens. However, Katsikas pulled out of the deal and his friend asked
another acquaintance, financier Giorgos Kaldis, to transfer the money to
Katsikas's Swiss bank account so he could pay various bills, including for
his cabinets. Kaldis wired the money from an account belonging to the Placid
Blue Corporation, an offshore company used for Christoforakos's slush fund.
Katsikas said he had no contact with Christoforakos.
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