Five ruling Pasok deputies on Thursday tabled a current question in parliament on the withdrawal of a proposal for writing off 24 billion euros as "uncollected debts" contained in a bill on "Urgent measures for implementation of the Support Program for the Greek Economy" that was recently passed by the House.
MPs Panagiotis Kouroumblis, Nadia Yiannakopoulou, Elias Theodoridis, Athanasios Papageorgiou and Pavlos Stasinos noted in their question that the creation of negative impressions in the society, in a time of economic crisis and social difficulty, had been averted with the withdrawal of the said proposal, and called for the names of the debtors be revealed in parliament, as well as the conclusions of the relevant investigation carried out by the authoritative ministry that would prove that the debtors and members of their families do not have shareholdings in offshore companies.
They also called for a briefing of parliament as to whether the prospect of concession of the Greek State's rights to collect the debts to specialised private firms via international tender has been adequately investigated so as to achieve the best possible result.
Further, the five MPs ask whether the judicial guarantees are secured, via the Council of Audit, regarding the Greek state's rights to collection of those debts and, if possible, for assurance to be presented that the amount of money of the proposed write-off will not become a part of the state deficit in the immediate future.
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