The Public Power Corp. (PPC - DEH) restored power to long-standing asylum, located in the inner city district of Kypseli, after Prime Minister Antonis Samaras himself intervened. According to reports, the premier's chief of staff Costas Bouras spoke with PPC chairman Arthuros Zervos by phone after news spread that power was cut-off after the institution failed to pay for a real estate tax, tacked on to power bills in 2011. According to the latter, the name on the bill belonged to a private citizen and not to the institution. The power was immediately restored after the mixup was cleared. Meanwhile, in another PPC-related development, the controversial head of the PPC employees' union, Nikos Fotopoulos, on Thursday claimed he was being "targeted" by a "furious and orchestrated" attack against him. Fotopoulos claimed he never threatened to cut power to consumers as part of an industrial action, but only to exercise the union's right to legally strike, while he again claimed that his personal safety is being threatened. (AMNA)