In passing and in the form of a decree, in the midst of this financial crisis which has been caused by the looting and mismanagement of the funds of the Greek and other states as we have described in other articles, the head of the prosecuting authority of the country G. Sanidas filed for and supported that imprisonment for debt to the public sector is constitutional “according to his judgment”.
The above took place in 9/26/2008 when the State Council decreed correctly that imprisonment for debts to the public sector is constitutionally unacceptable. On 11/21/2008 the Supreme Court ruled that it is constitutional, with great majority in a ‘special meeting’. This was announced by the mass media once in between other stories regarding low rate loans (in comparison to the loan shark levels they have reached) and an assortment of nameless people who in a state of panic said they would get loans to pay and avoid going to prison for a year. The words of a Citizen are characteristic: “half the independent self employed professionals will go to jail”.
For sure the chief prosecutor G. Sanidas does not care for the ensuring of income, since whoever is in the end imprisoned will not have paid his/her debt and will burden the state with living costs within the prison directly and through benefits of poverty or unemployment to his/her defamed family members indirectly. Also, the particular measure does not concern the people of the social class G. Sanidas is describing (“Mr. G. Sanidas put forth the following question to the members of the Supreme Court:
“And how is it possible for members of society to demand not to be imprisoned for debt to the Public Sector or for failure to cover such obligations to the members of society individually, because it allegedly constitutes lack of respect and protection of themselves as human values, when these same people without obvious property live in luxurious mansions, commute with luxury cars and generally live luxuriously and in this way show lack of respect and alliance to the social group and its people?” see Eleftheros Typos newspaper). It is known through his actions that not only he does not imprison such people but he relieves them from obligation, despite the millions or billions of debt to the public sector from large companies, ship owners and other people within luxurious mansions and cars.
Those who are in the crosshairs, and in an actual terrorist manner are the average Citizens of the Greek State who do not have fortunes save the family house and who, during the last months of the crisis, stopped taking loans and paying public sector dues since the upkeep costs, food, and direct daily living expenses obviously consume their already reduced monthly income and do not allow margins to pay for anything else.
The only way to motivate them to commit social and financial suicide, in the end for sure getting forever entangled with banks, mortgages and auctions is the threat of imprisonment and social ridicule which they will try to put for a year or two, maybe.
A confirming example for the above conclusions is the shame of the Lanaras family which for at least 50 years has owed staggering amounts to the public sector and which this family has never paid. Any tax collector who dared try and collect the debt with imprisonment or threatening with it was literally kicked out of the service with unfavourable relocation and immediate replacement next day by another tax collector.
An attestation – documentation is the report of the above rule by a tax collector of the Corporate IRS where, because the director of the tax collecting till Parthenis couldn’t stand for the injustice being done: he was forced to imprison a low-level merchant for a small amount (a few hundred drachmas) who had just been released from the hospital where he had been subjected to serious open chest surgery. He had evident sutures (he had been unable to work for that time period and make money) which he showed the director by lifting up his shirt. The director sent the officer to arrest the big corporate businessman Lanaras who was owing millions. The director tried to force him to spend even one night in prison, but with a single phonecall, Lanaras was released at midnight and the director of the Corporate IRS tax collection office disappeared as next day he was replaced by oral illegal order by another director (who also died a little while later by acute heart attack in Omonoia Square as he was leaving the Office, after a nervous breakdown he had there due to the demands and pressure used on him from within the service).
The connections and relation by marriage to several state functionaries and politicians is obvious and recorded and therefore displays the irrelevance and hypocrisy of the claims by G. Sanidas who acquits from criminal charges those who undersign the sell-out of National Lands as well as other criminal offenses at the expense of the public sector, which he terrorizes the People into funding and covering for instead.
The final decision for the constitutionality or not of the imprisonment for debt to the public sector will be taken by the Supreme Special Court, fact which has not been announced to the Citizens and which is at this time being silenced so that they will not be able to react in any level.