Corruption in Greece's public sector documented in new 2013 report

The following news is not anything new, but just vindicates what we have been claiming all along here on HellasFrappe that there are many cases of misconduct and corruption in the Greek public sector. According to the annual report written by the General Inspector of Public Administration, Leandros Rakintzis, many such cases were recorded throughout 2013 (imagine all the previous years).

Greek press reports claimed on Wednesday that Rakintzis filed several appeals against disciplinary boards’ decisions that in many cases were too lenient towards delinquent civil servants or whose decisions were not implemented.

The following cases are apparently documented in the 2013 report:

• A public employee at the municipality of Katerini, northern Greece, signed fake certificates of insurance payments for citizens of non-EU countries who live in Greece.
• A public employee at IKA, Greece’s largest Social Security fund, was approving disabilities pensions without having checked first if these people were entitled to swuch pensions.
• A public employee at OSE, Greece’s national railway company, gave wrong directions to a driver that could even have caused an accident. 

The General Inspector of Public Administration submitted the 2013 report to prime minister Antonis Samaras, as well as to the speaker of the Greek parliament Vangelis Meimarakis.