Karatzaferis addresses letter to Barroso over Siemens case

Opposition Popular Orthodox Rally (LA.OS) leader George Karatzaferis on Monday addressed a letter to European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso requesting the Commission’s intervention to ensure that the Greek state will be compensated by the German multinational Siemens.

Karatzaferis requested the intervention for the economic damage, as he claims, “caused by the bribery practices implemented by Siemens in order to undertake the construction of major public works (in Greece) … leading to tender tampering”.

Speaking to a private radio in Athens, Karatzaferis urged the government to address a letter to Siemens — requesting that all profits “made illegally through surcharges and overpricing” be returned to the Greek state, and referring to a Parliamentary investigation committee on Siemens, he characterised it as a “total failure”.