The new complaints of Faidonos against the Director of Road Transport ignited fires. According to what Mr. Faidonos said, "Mr. Kolettas said that at the time when he was negotiating the amount of the kilometer compensation, at the same time he was buying a house from the owner of a company, which while being valued at market prices of 300 thousand euros, he bought it for 200 thousand euros, paid 140 thousand and there he needs further investigation into where the 140 went, "always according to what the Mayor of Paphos stated".
The Mayor of Paphos described as sad the fact that the public transport companies, through the strike process, "try to blackmail", while he called on the state and the institutions not to bend to these blackmails - in his expression - and to recover and the last euro that "these gentlemen" have taken in the form of overpayments.
In a statement to reporters today, the Mayor of Paphos stated that for a year now it seems that the overpayments made to these companies have been revealed and substantiated with evidence.
Unfortunately, he said, it seems that for the Paphos company, based on data from him, overpayment of three million euros results, while based on data from the Ministry of Transport, the overpayment amounts to eight million, as he claimed.
He added that in order to cover these overpayments for many months from now on - perhaps all the months - until this agreement expires, the state may not have to pay a single euro. He also said that what is heard in public that the Paphos company does not receive a single euro is not valid.
The Paphos company, he continued, "collects several hundred thousand euros from tickets and that is state money that is included."
Therefore, the Mayor of Paphos estimated, the company has enough revenue and should not go on strike.
According to Mr. Faidonos, until March-April 2014, the companies did not submit a single invoice, but only received money from the state and refused to put invoices.
When in 2015 and after they started issuing invoices, he said, the overpayments that had been made, amounting to tens of millions of euros, became apparent.
Mr. Phaedon said that the state and the institutions should go ahead and reopen the case and check how these contracts were made in 2009 and what was the role of the Director of the Road Transport Department who was the Contracting Authority. He continued, the file of the disciplinary complaints made in 2012 by Odysseas Michailidis against the Director of Road Transport should be reopened and the file for the criminal complaints for the purchase of a house in Protaras should be reopened, at a time when - as Mr. Faidonos - “the Director was negotiating the amount of the kilometer compensation, at the same time he was buying a house from the owner of a company, who while it was valued at market prices of 300 thousand euros, bought it for 200 thousand euros, paid 140 thousand and there There is a need for further investigation into where the 140 went, ”always according to what the Mayor of Paphos stated.
So in this story with public transport, which cost the state 90 million, now we have dropped to 50 something, and again there is profit, he concluded.
Kolettas: Faidonos' allegations are unsubstantiated
The Director of the Department of Road Transport, Sotiris Kolettas, instructed his legal counsel to take legal action against libel, defamation and defamation, both against the Mayor of Paphos and against those who relay the libel through the Mass Media.
This is stated by Mr. Kolettas, responding, in a written statement, to the allegations of the Mayor of Paphos, Phaedon Phaedon, in the media regarding his person.
Mr. Kolettas states in his announcement that the accusations of Mr. Faidonos against him have been investigated in depth and with unprecedented rigor by the Tax Department and the Police without the slightest reprimand against him.
The allegations of disciplinary misconduct were heard by the Public Service Committee and he was acquitted, the Director of the Department of Road Transport said in a statement.
With regard to public transport, contracts and the system adopted to develop public passenger transport, it is noted that it was part of the then government's governance program implemented by a decision of the then Council of Ministers.
Mr. Faidonos' reports "on my face, on interventions in public transport contracts, on speculation, overpayments and exorbitant amounts allocated to the system are non-existent, unsubstantiated, misleading and far from reality."
Following the above, Mr. Kolettas states in his announcement that he has already given instructions to his legal counsel to take legal action against libel, defamation and defamation, both against Mr. Phaedon and against those from the Media who rebroadcast it. libel.
Source: REPORTER