Tag Archives: Polakis

The Greek Parliament lifted the parliamentary immunity of former SYRIZA Deputy Health Minister, Pavlos Polakis for two cases he is to be prosecuted. The voting took place following a prosecutor’s request as well as one by the Justice Ministry. The first case refers to the alleged illegal recording of a …

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A social and political outrage sparked on Tuesday, after Alternate Health Minister Pavlos Polakis accused an New Democracy candidate for the European Parliament of making use of disability provisions in order to get a job in the public sector as he is a person with special needs. 34-year-old Stelios Kymbouropoulos …

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Alternate Health Minister Pavlos Polakis has reportedly recorded a phone conversation with the governor of Bank of Greece, Yannis Stournaras, and leaked the content to a SYRIZA-friendly media outlet, Greek media report on Tuesday. In the focus of the conversation were the two “consumer loans” totaling €100,000 Polakis took from …

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A court in Athens court has ordered Alternate Health Minister Pavlos Polakis to pay financial damages to the family of a journalist for defamation of character. Polakis has alleged that the late Vassilis Beskenis, a political journalist and commentator at private Skai TV, had been being appointed to the Center …

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European Commissioner for Health Vytenis Andriukaitis was outraged at Alternate Health Minister Pavlos Polakis for disregarding legislation banning smoking in public places. Speaking on the sidelines of an event marking World Cancer Day at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center on Athens’s southern coast on Monday, Andriukaitis said that he …

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Deputy Health Minister, Pavlos Polakis, urged the public prosecutor to intervene after he revealed that an audit conducted for the time period 2007-2014 showed that 230 million euros have been missing from the cash registers of  KEELPNO, the Center for Disease Protection and Prevention. In his testimony at the Parliamentary …

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“The Novartis case is the tip of a big iceberg, one of the many reasons that led the country to bankruptcy,” deputy Health Ministry, Pavlos Polakis said on Thursday. The 85 billion euros of “black” money from drugs overpricing and illegal wages in the period from 1991 to 2010 make …

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Greece’s doctors are up in arms against deputy health minister Pavlos Polakis, who claimed that 80% of doctors working at public hospitals receive money under the hand by patients. The Athens Medical Association called on the Minister to submit evidence about his claims. The notorious and decades-long established practice Greeks …

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