“Where did the money go? Why were the projects not built? It went into the pockets of contractors and those who collaborated with them.” This strongly points to Interview of Manos Panagiot with “K”.retired chief engineer of the OSE, who served as its chief Directorate of Electromotive Signaling, Telecommunications and Electrical Installations (DISTIE) organism. That is, the Directorate, which has turned into ERGOSE.

In his interview, he says that he supplied the former MP Ahaya with facts and information. Nikos Nikolopoulos, who has sent a series of questions to Parliament from 2012 to date, exposing financial scandals in ERGOSE contracts. Among them is a ghostly convention 717 for the restructuring of the signaling and telemechanics system, which was signed in 2014 and remains unfulfilled to this day. At the same time, expert assessments allow us to conclude that if special systems had worked, the tragedy in Tempe could have been avoided.

“The critical element that ultimately led to the accident is that the security, alarm and remote control systems did not work, while huge sums were spent on these projects. And although some of these systems were previously in operation, due to insufficient maintenance, they were eventually rendered unusable.” says Mr Panagiotou. We asked him to explain why the system was left to its own devices and who ultimately benefited from the collapse of security systems. “Since the abolition of the Directorate, which was responsible for the operation of these systems (including DISTIE), maintenance has not been carried out enough.”

Convention 717

According to Mr. Panagiotou, liability for non-fulfillment of contract 717 dated HAVE WORKED it puts pressure on her Company TOMI which participates in a joint venture with the French Alstom. TOMI, says Mr. Panagiotou, “was conducting studies that the specialist company Alstom refused to sign. And he succeeded because these were not studies, they were from people that TOMI separated from ERGOSE, almost unrelated, and they made researchers.” He also claims that the leaders of the Greek company began, under various pretexts, to dismantle elements of the existing signaling and use materials and equipment not certified for high-speed lines. “He tried to impose on him, to say that the existing ones are useless, I throw them away and put these on, and all together is worth an additional 13.2 million euros.”