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Υπόθεση Siemens: «Δωρεές» τα χρήματα των μαύρων ταμείων

26 06 2009 – Ο Μιχ. Χριστοφοράκος παραδέχεται, μέσω του συνηγόρου του, τις συναλλαγές της Siemens με κόμματα

Πολιτικές σκοπιμότητες απέδωσε στη δίωξη του πελάτη του, ο συνήγορος του Μιχάλη Χριστοφοράκου, Ντάνιελ Πέτερ, μιλώντας στη Deutsche Welle. Παραδέχτηκε ότι το πρώην στέλεχος της Siemens έδινε χρήματα στα πολιτικά κόμματα, αλλά έκανε λόγο για «δωρεές» και όχι δωροδοκίες.

"Μπορεί να παρέβη τους κανονισμούς, αλλά το ένταλμα σύλληψης στην Ελλάδα δεν αφορά τους πολιτικούς αλλά αποκλειστικά τους υπαλλήλους του ΟΤΕ", σημείωσε. Επιχειρηματολογώντας κατά της έκδοσης του εντολέα του στην Ελλάδα, ο Γερμανός ποινικολόγος χαρακτήρισε "τερατώδες" το γεγονός ότι ο Μιχ. Χριστοφοράκος κινδυνεύει να καταδικαστεί σε ισόβια κάθειρξη, εάν αποδειχτεί η ενοχή του. Σημείωσε ότι είναι Γερμανός υπήκοος και υποστήριξε ότι τα αδικήματα για τα οποία κατηγορείται έχουν παραγραφεί στη Γερμανία.

Κάνοντας αναφορά στο χρόνο παραγραφής, τόνισε ότι τον Απρίλιο του 2008 είχε κληθεί να καταθέσει στην ελληνική δικαιοσύνη, όχι ως μάρτυρας, αλλά ως κατηγορούμενος. Ο δικηγόρος του Μιχ. Χριστοφοράκου είπε ότι το υπουργείο Εξωτερικών μετέφρασε εφαλμένα τη δικογραφία στα γερμανικά, με αποτέλεσμα η λέξη "μάρτυρας" να αντικατασταθεί από τη λέξη "κατηγορούμενος". Άφησε, μάλιστα, υπαινιγμούς ότι αυτό έγινε σκοπίμως, προκειμένου να "θολώσουν" τα νερά σχετικά με το χρόνο παραγραφής των αδικημάτων.

Τέλος, επανέλαβε τους ισχυρισμούς ότι η ζωή του πελάτη του κινδυνεύει στην Ελλάδα, λέγοντας ότι η ομολογία του θα πλήξει δεκάδες πολιτικούς.

Πηγή: enet.gr

Υπόθεση Siemens: Στο Μόναχο ο Ζαγοριανός

26 06 2009 – Στην βαυαρική πρωτεύουσα μεταβαίνουν ο Εισαγγελέας Εκδόσεων και ο ανακριτής της υπόθεσης της Siemens προκειμένου να διευκολυνθεί η διαδικασία παράδοσης του Μ. Χριστοφοράκου.

Ο υπουργός Δικαιοσύνης, Νικ. Δένδιας, ενέκρινε το αίτημα του Εισαγγελέα του Αρείου Πάγου, Γεωργίου Σανιδά, να μεταβούν με δαπάνη του υπουργείου Δικαιοσύνης στο Μόναχο o προϊστάμενος του Τμήματος Εκδόσεων της Εισαγγελίας Εφετών Αθηνών, Ευάγγελος Παντιώρας, και ο ανακριτής της υπόθεσης της Siemens, Νικόλαος Ζαγοριανός.

Oι δύο δικαστικοί λειτουργοί θα μεταβούν στο Μόναχο -όπως αναφέρει σχετική ανακοίνωση του υπουργού- «προκειμένου να επισπευσθεί και να διευκολυνθεί η διαδικασία παράδοσης στην Ελλάδα του κατηγορούμενου για την υπόθεση της Siemens, Μ. Χριστοφοράκου, ο οποίος συνελήφθη στη Βαυαρία, σε εκτέλεση του ευρωπαϊκού εντάλματος σύλληψης, που εξέδωσαν οι ελληνικές δικαστικές αρχές».

«Η υπόθεση Siemens έχει συνέπειες για δεκάδες πολιτικούς»

Απρόθυμος εμφανίζεται ο κ. Μ. Χριστοφοράκος όσον αφορά στην επιστροφή του στην Ελλάδα. Ενδεικτική είναι η στάση των συνηγόρων του Γερμανία, οι οποίοι σ υποστήριξαν σε συνέντευξή τους στη Deutsche Welle πως ο κ. Χριστοφοράκος εκτιμά ότι η «ζωή του κινδυνεύει» στην Ελλάδα καθώς «η υπόθεση της Siemens έχει συνέπειες για δεκάδες Έλληνες πολιτικούς». Υπογράμμισε ότι «σύντομα στην Ελλάδα θα γίνουν εκλογές», ως εκ τούτου η υπόθεση εξυπηρετεί την πολιτική κατάσταση. Τόνισε λοιπόν, ότι γι’ αυτό το λόγο πρόκειται για μία «πολιτική υπόθεση». Σημειώνεται ότι ο συνήγορος του, Ντάνιελ Πέτερ, σε δηλώσεις του στην Deutsche Welle, τονίζει ότι «ο Μιχάλης Χριστοφοράκος δεν δωροδόκησε κανέναν, απλά έκανε δωρεές στα κόμματα», κάτι που είναι νόμιμο στη Γερμανία.

Ο κ. Πέτερ διευκρίνισε τους λόγους για τους οποίους ο κ. Χριστοφοράκος δεν πρέπει να εκδοθεί στην Ελλάδα. Πρώτον είναι Γερμανός υπήκοος και παρότι διαθέτει και την ελληνική υπηκοότητα, δεν μπορεί να εκδοθεί για αδικήματα που έχουν παραγραφεί σύμφωνα με τη γερμανική δικαιοσύνη. Δεύτερον, η γενική εισαγγελία στο Μόναχο διαπίστωσε ότι το 90% των αδικημάτων έχουν παραγραφεί. Τρίτον, ο κ. Πέτερς κατηγόρησε την Ελλάδα για παραποίηση εγγράφου. Συγκεκριμένα, επισήμανε ότι σε συνοδευτικό έγγραφο του εντάλματος η λέξη μάρτυρας μεταφράστηκε στα γερμανικά ως ύποπτος – κατηγορούμενος. Ο συνήγορος του κ. Χριστοφοράκου σημείωσε ότι δεν μπορεί να εμπιστευτεί μία χώρα που παραποιεί στοιχεία.

Πηγή: kathimerini.gr

Υπόθεση Siemens: Βαρύ το κατηγορητήριο για τον Θ. Τσουκάτο

26 06 2009 – Σε χρηματισμό στελεχών του ΟΤΕ, αλλά και στο προσωπικό του περιουσιακό χαρτοφυλάκιο και όχι στο ταμείο του ΠΑΣΟΚ, κατέληξε το ένα εκατομμύριο μάρκα που είχε πάρει από τη Siemens ο Θόδωρος Τσουκάτος, σύμφωνα με το κατηγορητήριο εις βάρος του.

Ο Θ. Τσουκάτος κατηγορείται για το  αδίκημα της νομιμοποίησης εσόδων από εγκληματική δραστηριότητα κατ’ επάγγελμα και έχοντας διαμορφώσει την υποδομή για τον πορισμό εισοδήματος.

Ταυτόχρονα, αναφέρεται ότι το ένα εκατομμύριο γερμανικά μάρκα, από τα "μαύρα ταμεία" της Siemens κατέληξε σε στελέχη και υπαλλήλους του ΟΤΕ. Ο ανακριτής αναφέρει ότι ο ρόλος του κ. Τσουκάτου ήταν μεσολαβητικός και το ποσό έφτασε, από τον Απρίλιο έως τον Μάϊο του 1999, σε στελέχη του οργανισμού, αρκετά από τα οποία δεν έχουν εντοπιστεί από την ανάκριση.

Πηγή: enet.gr

Video: Android saved by HTC’s Hero

26 06 2009 – Android saved by HTC’s Hero. Plus; INQ’sTwitterphone & operators go green in Singapore.

Participants:
Peter Chou, CEO, HTC Corporation
Frank Meehan, CEO, INQ Mobile
Laina Raveendran Greene, CEO, Getit.org
Dipesh Mohile, Senior Analyst, Tonse Telecom
Brendan Leitch, Director of Service Provider Marketing, APAC, Juniper Networks

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Video: Michael Jackson – A Video Tribute

26 05 2009 – Michael Jackson, one of the biggest pop icons in modern history, has passed away at the age of 50.

Although Jackson’s music career hit its peak in the 80’s, his influence on music, and especially music videos, has persisted throughout.

And Jackson’s YouTube channel – which celebrates the 25th anniversary of Thriller – includes all of his most popular videos, many of which have been viewed tens of millions of times.

Below, some of our favorite Jackson videos (a full collection can be found here), lead off by what’s regarded by many as the greatest music video of all-time: Thriller.

Thriller

Billy Jean

Bad

Smooth Criminal

Don’t Stop Til You Get Enough

Source: mashable.com

Video: Google briefly blocked in China

25 06 2009 – Internet users in China were briefly unable to open Google’s main sites late Wednesday, and the company said it is investigating.

According to many reports, the Chinese authorities have temporarily blocked access to the Chinese version of Google Search, Google.cn, as well as Gmail, at 9pm local time. The sites seem to be available again now, but this is a clear sign that even Google is not untouchable anymore when it comes to Chinese censorship.

The dispute between CIIRC (China Internet Illegal Information Reporting Center) and Google – the only company usually considered to be too big to be blocked – began recently, when Google Search started appearing in CIIRC’s reports as a service that disseminates pornographic and vulgar information.

Although Google has promptly promised to do everything in their power to satisfy CIIRC’s demands, it seems that it wasn’t fast or resolute enough, as two of Google’s most important properties – Google Search and Gmail – have been blocked for several hours. The block has been lifted, but Google is no longer untouchable; next time, it might get blocked for days, weeks or months, just like so many other sites. Furthermore, according to some sources, the Chinese censors have even tried to frame Google, artificially pushing some inappropriate results to the list of the most common searched terms.

In some ways, this is good news. Blocking Google Search, the site that merely indexes and provides links to content hosted elsewhere, just goes on to show that everything on the Internet is connected in such a way that it’s nearly impossible to censor one part without censoring the others. Earlier, sites like Twitter, YouTube and Flickr were blocked; with Google Search blocked, Chinese censors are showing their true intent: they’d ultimately like to block every part of the Internet that’s not under their strict control.

It’ll be interesting to see Google’s reaction to this latest slap in the face from CIIRC. Surely, they will try to further cripple Google.cn (they already removed the option to search foreign websites), but at one point it might become pointless, as the service will no longer be what it’s supposed to be: a search engine. Will Google.cn turn into a site that links only to sites approved by Chinese censors, or will Google finally muster the courage to say enough is enough? We’ll see.

Source: mashable.com

Video: Green Planet Episode 9 – ICT As a Tool

25 06 2009 – Although ICT accounts for only around 2.5% of total greenhouse gas emissions, they have the potential to be used in reducing the other 97.5% in other sectors of the economy.

ICTs could deliver approximately 7.8 GtCO2e of emissions savings in 2020, equivalent to 15% of all emissions. ICT-enabled energy efficiency alone translates into approximately $950 billion of cost savings.

Studies in various countries, generally supported by or associated with telecom companies, suggest broad potential for ICT to cut energy use and carbon emissions.

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Google: The Internet Behemoth and how it profits from YouTube

25 06 2009 – There is an ongoing debate about the size of the losses at YouTube and for how much longer the parent, Google, can afford to fund its errant child’s excessive lifestyle. Credit Suisse put a high price on it; Brough Turner criticised their analysis; RampRate decisively debunked it.

The debate has focused upon YouTube as a standalone service and little attention has been given to the spin-off benefits accruing to the parent. Google controls a significant, and growing, share of the means of production of the entire Internet industry. We argue that ownership of YouTube is a crucial ingredient for Google’s control of the economic rent that Google extracts from the whole of the Internet value chain.

We believe that YouTube is used indirectly to drive profits at the parent, and that Google is currently incentivized to keep these profits hidden from prying eyes. The key indirect benefits accruing to Google of owning YouTube are as follows:

i) YouTube gains Google a critical slice of growing online video eyeballs, which will attract more marketing dollars to the Internet as a whole. This is much more important in the USA, where the main competitor Hulu is ad-funded than the UK, where the BBC iPlayer is taxpayer funded;
ii) YouTube gains Google yet more important meta-data which can be cross-pollinated with data from other Google services;
iii) YouTube traffic strengthens Google specifically in peering negotiations and generally in network design;
iv) YouTube is probably a small fraction of Google’s overall cost base, and the spin-off benefits from lower overall unit costs;and
v) YouTube positions Google very powerfully for a key role as a gatekeeper in the copyright world.

This article explains these indirect benefits in detail and explains a strategy for telcos to adopt in the online video world.

A rising tide raises all boats

On a macro level, the more ‘eyeballs’ and time spent on the internet, the bigger percentage of advertising budgets that advertisers will allocate to internet marketing. Compelling content is an essential attractor of ’eyeballs’. For Google with its massive share of the internet market, it doesn’t matter quite as much whether the video stream itself is monetized today as long as it picks up a share of the increase in the overall digital advertising budget.

What is more uncertain is whether online viewing would have grown regardless of Google owning YouTube. Nonetheless, Google’s ownership ensures YouTube’s survival and gives Google a significant foothold in this growing and potentially important area.

Source: OFCOM – UK Communications Market Review 2008.

In 2008, overall UK advertising revenue was £17.5bn with TV advertising £3.8bn and Internet advertising representing £3.3bn. The overall market declined by 3.5%, whereas Internet advertising grew by 17.5% – not bad in a recession.

We are not saying that video accounts for the whole of the increase in Internet advertising. Far from it. A significant part of the rise will be accounted by other factors: the overall increase in the Internet population, the time spent on social networking and other services, the increase in e-commerce spending, and the relative effectiveness of Internet advertising as a channel. However, video viewing is becoming significant, as the latest US Comscore Video Matrix data for April illustrates:

1. 78.6 percent of the total U.S. Internet audience viewed online video.
2. The average online video viewer watched 385 minutes of video, or 6.4 hours.
3. 107.1 million viewers watched 6.8 billion videos on YouTube.com (63.5 videos per viewer).
4. 49 million viewers watched 387 million videos on MySpace.com (7.9 videos per viewer).
5. Hulu accounted for 2.4 percent of videos viewed, but 4.2 percent of all minutes spent watching online video.
6. The duration of the average online video was 3.5 minutes.

What is more uncertain is whether online viewing would have grown regardless of Google owning YouTube.

Google’s Share of the Advertising Pie keeps on Rising

As well as Internet advertising growing faster than overall advertising, Google’s share of that advertising is growing as well.

Source: IAB/PWC Data and Google SEC filings

In 2008, the Google share of the overall US Internet advertising market had reached 45%, up from 36% in 2006 – pre YouTube acquisition. Again, all of this growth cannot be attributed to YouTube – either directly or indirectly.

In terms of direct YouTube advertising revenues, Google does not publish a figure. Credit Suisse in their infamous analyst note estimates YouTube 2008 advertising revenue at only US$200m (associated with overall losses of US$470m) and the IAB/PWC data estimates video advertising at only 3% of the overall Internet advertising market.

Show me the Meta-Data

One of the little discussed benefits of Google owning YouTube is that YouTube is more than a pure video streaming network. It is a social network in its own right. Accounts are needed to create, comment about and rate content, which is something that is not required for the core search service. It is hard to envisage that at this stage YouTube is directly monetizing this meta-data. Undoubtedly, however, it will be contributing to understanding of user-behaviour, and probably the data is already contributing to the optimization of the Google advertising engine.

Google worldwide revenues have grown by US$11.2bn to US$21.8bn in the two years since purchasing YouTube in 2006 for an all-share cost of US$1.8bn. In the same period, operating cashflow has grown by US$4.3bn to US$7.9bn.

The amount of indirect contribution of YouTube to Google revenues is uncertain, but what is more certain is that Google can afford YouTube.

Marginal Cost = Zero

One of the most important disciplines of Internet economics is to keep the marginal costs of delivering another page or another video stream as close as possible to zero. This doesn’t mean that total costs are zero, but more costs are predictable and not subject to the vagaries of any explosive growth in demand.

To be successful on the Internet, then, costs must be either turned into fixed costs or else made success-based. With YouTube,the key variables are computing and bandwidth costs. Google’s tactic is turning the majority of them into capital costs. Google is deploying more and more capital building out infrastructure, whether vast datacenters or its own network – effectively keeping an ever increasing proportion of its traffic on the Googlenet.

Another key variable costs for YouTube is the cost of the content itself. Google here attempts to minimize its risk by making any payout to third parties dependent upon success of advertising revenues achieved. This is the cornerstone of the Adsense program for publishers. Unfortunately for Google, it is not the traditional way that the video content industry works and therefore is a great source of friction between YouTube and video rights holders.
The Bandwidth Equation

A case can easily be made that Google could make its cost of delivery for video – zero. Every global IP transit provider would love to be the exclusive deliverer of such a significant portion of the world’s Internet traffic, and the transit providers could make money by squeezing the downstream ISPs in their cost of delivery. Such an extreme network design would bear a heavy political cost for Google and would obviously be unpalatable, but it illustrates the power that Google has accumulated through the YouTube traffic.

Instead of focusing on IP transit, Google extensively uses peering, delivering its own traffic to the major peering points in the world, as we made clear in this post, which the people at RampRate used in their critique of Credit Suisse. Peering is not free – it involves buying expensive dark fibre linking the Google data centres to the peering exchanges, renting space in the peering exchanges, equipment to light up the fibre and a team of network engineers to manage the peering relationships. However, most of these costs are fixed. As important for Google is that peering will allow them to control the reliability of delivering their traffic.

A more recent tactic for Google is to build edge-caching servers within ISP networks bringing the content closer to the end-user and thereby improving the speed of delivery. The early indication seem to be that Google is building its own content delivery network in much the same way as Akamai has built one – except that the Google one is for internal use only, right now. Most media companies have to use third party content delivery networks, as they don’t enjoy the Google economies of scale. For instance, the BBC uses Akamai for delivery of a significant proportion of its traffic. The Google costs are fixed whereas the BBC’s are variable – they are paying a third party supplier.

The more difficult question to answer is how much is the sheer volume of YouTube traffic is helping the other Google services, especially the highly profitable search business. We would argue significantly – in terms of cost, reliability and speed. Furthermore, the overall bandwidth economics that Google enjoy are extremely difficult for competitors to replicate and represent a significant barrier to entry.

The Google strategy in distribution seems to be to keep control and only outsource the minimum. Logically, Google would only adopt this strategy if it felt it could gain a competitive edge through distribution. Scale matters in distribution and YouTube brings that scale to Google.

The Compute Equation

In a recent paper about its datacentre operations, Google argued:

“As computation continues to move into the cloud, the computing platform of interest no longer resembles a pizza box or a refrigerator, but a warehouse full of computers. These new large datacenters are quite different from traditional hosting facilities of earlier times and cannot be viewed simply as a collection of co-located servers. Large portions of the hardware and software resources in these facilities must work in concert to efficiently deliver good levels of Internet service performance, something that can only be achieved by a holistic approach to their design and deployment. In other words, we must treat the datacenter itself as one massive warehouse-scale computer (WSC).”

In determining the computing cost for the YouTube service, it is impossible to look at the cost of the service in isolation or approximate it with traditional server and storage costs. The Google strategy is to build vast datacentres and to control the elements within as much as possible. Google does not use standard off-the-shelf components – Google not only uses commodity hardware and designs the whole of the software stack, but innovates on power and cooling systems.

With the capital costs of a large datacentre running as high as US$250m, the cost is more dependent upon overall utilization of the datacentre than individual units such as storage or CPU costs. In fact, as the chart below shows, power costs are as important as server costs.

Source: The Datacenter as a Computer: An Introduction to the Design of Warehouse-Scale Machines – Luiz André Barroso and Urs Hölzle – Morganclaypool

YouTube undoubtedly consumes a lot of compute resources. Most analysts have focused upon storage, but the cost of ingesting and encoding all the video is very expensive as well. But, we are doubtful YouTube represents as high a proportion of overall Google services’ demand for computing as it does for bandwidth. However, we are sure that Google has a significant cost advantage over its competitors.

Google builds its own factories for the digital age. Whilst other individual datacentres are being built of a similar scale, it is doubtful that any other company has reached the same scale as Google.

YouTube and Negotiating Power

Video on the internet is currently extremely difficult to monetize – as we say in the Online Video market study, we are currently in a “Pirate world” where most content is available is available for “free” from a variety of sources. Old media are seeing their revenues cannibalized as content moves online into the “Pirate World”. Eventually, either through legislation or sheer volume of eyeballs, New Players will emerge whose revenues and profits will be significant. Arguably, the effort to increase the percentage of YouTube videos that carry ads is a key indicator of this. The business model for this New World is still extremely uncertain. However, just because of the sheer volume of traffic, Google will have a key seat at the value chain negotiating table. Google will also almost certainly be the lowest cost player, in both aggregation and distribution.

What would make the negotiating position of Google even stronger is control of the method of licensing content. The recent Google Books deal shows that Google is starting to get extremely interested not only in the meta-data around copyright, but also in distributing payments directly to content creators and not through traditional aggregators. In this case, the creators are the authors and the aggregators are the publishers. It does not take a major leap in thinking to see how Google could disintermediate the traditional aggregators of video and music with YouTube.

YouTube Overall Profitability

It is irrelevant to determine the overall profitability of YouTube without considering the spin-off benefits to the parent, Google. These spin-offs are currently considerable but difficult to quantify: in attracting eyeballs to the Internet, therefore attracting more overall advertising spend; and in providing the traffic volume which improves the overall economics for the Google Cloud Computing Platform.

In the future, YouTube will be the key for Google establishing a strong position in the licensing of media content and thus not only controlling its own costs, but being a critical aggregator and distributor for content owners in its own right. Google will try to turn its current Achilles heel, copyright, into a future strength.

In the Telcos Eye

The critical message for telcos is in the scale of investment that Google is making in distribution. Despite BT claiming that the BBC and YouTube are enjoying a free ride, the exact opposite is true. Google is building out both compute and bandwidth infrastructure for delivery. Other video services, for example the BBC, are paying third parties such as Akamai for distribution.

The real battleground is around the share of the value chain. BT is really saying that it is not earning enough from its access fees and the economic table is tilted in the favour of “free-at-the-point-of consumption” video services such as YouTube and other sites, such as Hulu and the iPlayer.

But all is not lost. The growing size of the payTV market proves that advertising alone cannot fund all video services and consumers will pay for premium content. The core strategy for telcos competing is not to replicate YouTube, but by providing tools for the myriad of content owners who are unhappy with the current payback from the online world – these tools are not limited to billing & payment services, but should also include copyright protection.

The war of online value chain is not yet lost: we are still in a pirate world and Google is one of a very small club who can afford to distribute all types of content across the globe.

Source: Telco2.0

Υπόθεση siemens: Στάση αναμονής από κυβέρνηση και ΠΑΣΟΚ, μετά τη σύλληψη Χριστοφοράκου

25 06 2009 – Η κυβέρνηση ενδιαφέρεται για την πλήρη και σε βάθος διαλεύκανση της υπόθεσης Siemens, δήλωσε ο ο Ευάγγελος Αντώναρος, με αφορμή τη σύλληψη του Μιχάλη Χριστοφοράκου. «Όλοι περιμένουν την έκδοση του Μιχάλη Χριστοφοράκου στην Ελλάδα, για να μάθουν τι ακριβώς έχει συμβεί», τόνισε από μεριά του, ο εκπρόσωπος του ΠΑΣΟΚ.

Όσο για τον Θόδωρο Τσουκάτο, ο Γιώργος Παπακωνσταντίνου σημείωσε με νόημα ότι είναι εκτός κόμματος.

Ο κυβερνητικός εκπρόσωπος δήλωσε πως η κυβέρνηση έχει κάνει αυτό που προβλέπεται, προκειμένου η ανεξάρτητη δικαιοσύνη να διερευνήσει την υπόθεση σε βάθος. "Μας ενδιαφέρει να χυθεί άπλετο φως και για αυτό εκδόθηκε διεθνές ένταλμα σύλληψης", σημείωσε.

"Η γερμανική δικαιοσύνη κάνει ότι δεν έκανε η ελληνική", τόνισε ο Γ. Παπακωνσταντίνου, με αφορμή τη σύλληψη του Μιχ. Χριστοφοράκου και πρόσθεσε ότι όλοι περιμένουν την έκδοση του στην Ελλάδα για να μάθουν  την αλήθεια και το τι έχει συμβεί.

Σχετικά με την υπόθεση του Θόδωρου Τσουκάτου επανέλαβε ότι το πρώην στέλεχος του ΠΑΣΟΚ βρίσκεται εκτός κόμματος μέχρι να υπάρξει πλήρης διαλεύκανση, ενώ πρόσθεσε, ότι χρήματα δεν βρέθηκαν στο ταμείο του ΠΑΣΟΚ, όπως έχει ισχυριστεί ο κ. Τσουκάτος.

Σημειώνεται ότι ο Μιχ. Χριστοφοράκος συνελήφθη, το μεσημέρι, στο Ρόζενχαϊμ, κοντά στα σύνορα της Γερμανίας με την Αυστρία (περισσότερα, εδώ)

Πηγή: enet.gr