Ad. Georgiadis: From next week we will announce a series of fines at gas stations

“We have already imposed a lot of fines. The fines we have imposed for notoriety since the beginning of the year have already exceeded 3 million euros,” said the Minister of Development and Investment, Adonis Georgiadis, in an interview with ANT1 television.

The minister announced that “from next week we will announce a series of fines at gas stations. We have already completed many inspections at gas stations and unfortunately, we have found several violations… I have given an order to DIMEA and we were on the islands all week. a little, I talked to the mayor of Patmos, where they have a special program because they have only two gas stations throughout Patmos from one company, where the price was much higher and I contacted the company to see why the price is “Next week or the next week, I will go to some of these islands myself to see and the gas station owners can explain to me why there is such a big difference in price.”

“The accuracy is very high”, stressed Mr. Georgiadis and added, answering a relevant question: “Or for VAT I can not give you an answer. As the Prime Minister has said, this is also a weapon on the table. But let ‘s remember something: A week ago we announced a 3.6 billion current aid package. After two days if you look at Greece’ s lending rates they went to 3.57. a signal in the markets that you are scattering money indiscriminately and without any limit, because then you will be out of the markets again and we will have other, from what we have experienced in the past that no one wants. “Society’s demands to the government must be sensible. We can not, we do not have infinite resources, we can not eliminate accuracy as a whole.”

SOURCE: AMPE