Greek privatisation: Business class: UK Only Article: standard article Issue: How India got its funk Fly Title: Greek privatisation Rubric: An already floundering agency loses its boss, again Location: ATHENS Main image: Stelios Stavridis, on a flight to nowhere Stelios Stavridis, on a flight to nowhere RARELY is a Greek official sacked for “ethical reasons.” An exception is Stelios Stavridis, the boss of Taiped, the privatisation agency, who was dismissed on August 18th. His mistake was to have flown on a private jet belonging to a Greek oil tycoon, Dimitris Melissanidis, one of the buyers of a 33% stake in Opap, the state gambling company, hours after the €652m ($872m) deal was signed. A picture (above) of Mr Stavridis sitting next to a smiling stewardess appeared in ProtoThema, an Athens tabloid. Mr Stavridis denies wrongdoing: he merely accepted Mr Melissanidis’s offer of a lift home to the island of Kefalonia to resume his summer holiday, rather than take a ... dlvr.it/3rV6ng ECONOMIST
Posted on: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 01:31:14 +0000