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Athens News Agency: News in English, 08-02-12
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[01] PASOK leader on Siemens affair
[01] PASOK leader on Siemens affair
Main opposition PASOK party leader George Papandreou accused the
government on Tuesday night of "obstructing" the probing of "issues of
great public interest," while speaking in Parliament during a debate on
a PASOK proposal for the creation of a Factfinding Committee to probe
allegations of Greek officials being bribed by the Siemens company.
Papandreou said his party "has no petty partisan goal, but is part of a
series of initiatives aimed at cracking down on corruption and the
shaping of a national plan for a way out of the crisis."
Defending his proposal for the creation of a Factfinding Committee,
Papandreou said that "the German mother company has already admitted at
the highest level that it carried out criminal acts against the Greek
state, cooperating with perjuring Greek state functionaries. You should
have turned legally against the mother company and its Greek branch,
claiming civil compensation and to activate legal procedures
immediately to enable the culprits to be arrested and to be held
accountable."
Lastly, Papandreou said that "instead of this, you were obstructing for
several months, instead of responding to the request by German
justice."
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