For five whole years an employee at the ambulance service EKAV has been receiving his monthly salary month in, month out. However, he never bothered to appear at the service and do his duty. How could he? The man was very busy: he was working at the cafeteria of his sister, instead, and furthermore he had established an import company that would bring bio-fuel from Bulgaria to Northern Greece.
This case was not a secret among his colleagues in the EKAV unit of Pella prefecture. His colleagues knew it, his supervisors most probably knew it too. For five whole years. The state mechanism remained inactive.
It needed dozens of anonymous reporting, four filed complaints, two internal investigations, one findings report by the Inspectors of Public Health and one meeting of the EKAV managing board to confirm that the man was ….visible in papers and payroll, but invisible in practice and ambulance daily life.
“He has received more than 120 thousand euro,” General secretary of Public Administration, Leonidas Rakitzis, told private Skai TV on Monday morning and muttered something that the man was allegedly “a unionist.” Rakitzis explanation on why his supervisors did not kick him out and why the public sector mechanism did not became active earlier were not convincing.
The ambulance service of EKAV was for years, the state institution where Greece’s two ruling parties would park their voters as a gesture of gratitude.
On November 2013, KTG reported about the case. At that time, the Disciplinary Board of Public Administration fined the man with deprivation of salary for 3 months.
The man did not appear on duty from December 2006 until November 2011. But he started to work after complaints were piling up and the case reached the EKAV Headquarters in Athens.
On disciplinary level, the case is still being investigated (!), at the end he may be fired and obliged to return 120,000 euro.
For years, the ambulance service of EKAV was the state institution where Greece’s two ruling parties would “park” their voters with a job and a salary as a gesture of gratitude.
According to Proto Thema, there are dozens of similar cases of such ’employees” in each prefecture.
PS Dozens? Oh, NOOOOoooOOOOOoooooo !!!!!!
