Independent deputy Marios Salmas speaks of the “absence of the State” in protecting consumers “from fraud at gas stations”, in a current question he presented to the Minister of Development, Takis Theodorikakos.
As Salmas highlights, citing a relevant publication, “the cost of theft for consumers is estimated at 120 million euros per year, the State loses hundreds of millions of euros in taxes, while all gas stations that were closed due to fraud since June they are operating normally today.”
The deputy also speaks of the “enormous personal responsibility of the Minister of Development”, remembering that he informed both him and the Prime Minister, at the meeting of the New Democracy Parliamentary Group, last June, about fuel smuggling and “some months after the National Polytechnic Metsovio discovers the enormous extent – 1 in 4 gas stations in Attica – of the fraud, completely confirming my intervention”.