The only thing he did not do during the 40 years he spent fuel smuggling was formally becoming involved in politics. Unofficially it was always in.
Fuel smuggling has often led to changes in governments. He appointed ministers, deputies, generals, and advisors. He always regulated the market with his own prices.
With a clean turnover of €500 million per year (some earn even more), how could he not regulate the price levels he wanted on the market. Something about your controls at gas stations… something about the mafia…, it's not difficult at all.
What should be done in Greece with the input and output system (which, as we have seen, is limited in its implementation… and therefore will remain on the shelf!! Hasn't it been 15 years since we were told it would be implemented?
What do you want from a system when your coolers tracking smuggled goods, tanks and other equipment… are in the service of smugglers only.
What do you want from them when fuel smuggling (as the main axis of the market process) has a say in the parties of power (which need political crutches) in which crutches to use or in which crutches to wait for their formation, to serve them…
During all these years of this unstoppable orgy of fuel smuggling, more than 10 ministers and deputy ministers were “reshuffled” or sacked by governments while members of the independent authorities (who thought…they were tasked with looking into fuel smuggling well) were gone. For home…
So, what do you expect to happen with the recent NTUA study into fuel smuggling (after it found tampered pumps). Some media will see the study and then go with 200 others!!. Studies that government aides didn't even bother to put on the shelves. Why would they do that since they are suitable for warehouses…
And other studies (those that are paid for out of the pockets of citizens with the costs of supporting government services that are prepared solely for studies… -transfer to taxpayers as authorities-) you will not find them even in the toilets for common use…
Most of them simply disappeared. The members of the authorities were replaced. Then working groups were formed to study the studied and neglected principles.
Finally, let me remind you that on the occasion of the issuance of the last anti-smuggling law (the law established by the current government, until the next law comes in 2027 to establish its own law…) we wrote in the column dated November 15 December 2023 “Catch my smugglers Fuel and here we are.” That since 1993, when the fuel market and its prices were liberalized (very correctly – because we were late compared to the EU -) we also formed working groups and 40 committees to study fuel smuggling. Meanwhile, 1-2 independent authorities presented two of their own studies (10 years 1990-2000) on how to “reduce smuggling”.
What happened since then? The latest law (of 2023) removes the primary responsibilities of the state for the problem of fuel smuggling and moves it into the arena itself (reserving only for itself the possible penalty…) as if it were difficult (after 30 years of comedy on the subject) to identify either the refineries (buyers) or the Companies (distribution) or at gas stations (sellers) who, how much, how much and how they smuggle and what is done with counterfeiting…
Therefore, the state cannot pursue smuggled goods. That's why he put it on the market. What then? Most likely the smuggler will form his own party (not difficult for Hladistan). Its central slogan is combating smuggling!! Is it unlikely that we will encounter this as well?
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