By releasing a one-page excel, the president of SYRIZA skipped his commitment to present his assets: a normal Athene’s declaration contains 11 pages – and asks for details of every kind of asset – from deposits and real estate to holdings in the companies for which it is requested:
– the type of holding,
– the type of business,
– the year of commencement,
– the capital contribution,
– but also the origin of the money!
Speaking at the SYRIZA pre-election rally in Thessaloniki, Mr. Kasselakis presented a summary table for 2023, in which he refers to income of 2,067 million dollars, debts of 1,831 million dollars, investment products of 3,040 million dollars.
The SYRIZA president declares the company Osios LLC, through which he lent to SYRIZA’s media, and declares a limited partner in Pura Vita E.E., which owns a juice shop in Spetses.
He also declares his participation through Osios in Tiptree Marine, which he ran and from which he was dismissed a few days before joining the SYRIZA State Election ticket. In the speech in Thessaloniki, Kasselakis said that as far as “the foreign company” – namely Osios LLC, which is based in the state of Delaware and subject to its preferential tax status – was concerned, its transfer was completed in early 2024.
Kasselakis stuck to the narrative he presented on August 29, 2023 when he announced his candidacy
See the table presented by Mr. Kasselakis:
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The usual attack on “Proto Thema”
In fact, Mr Kasselakis presented a second table, in which he attempts to compare his own income in 2023 with that of Kyriakos Mitsotakis in 2021 and then interspersed his speech with an attack on “Proto Thema”. Presenting himself as a victim, he said:
“The regime has set up a whole system to throw mud on me every day.
So that the resentment would stick to me.
And it is ready to continue.
Maximou is waiting for the disclosure of my assets to give lies and mud to Proto Thema. Here they were not ashamed to give him edited material about the souls murdered in Tempi, will they hesitate to assassinate the character of a political opponent?
So I inform this whole rotten system: I will be here, standing.
I will not allow you to defile me.
Your mud is returned to you,” concluded Mr Kasselakis.
In his speech:
“I am personally taking over Thessaloniki, it will be our first priority,” SYRIZA President Stefanos Kasselakis said during his speech in the city.
“You have experienced a mockery of a lifetime, from Kouvela’s hole, before I was even born, to the Prime Minister’s announcement that he will expand a metro that does not exist,” the SYRIZA president continued. “Today I will tell you all my truths and you evaluate them,” he noted. “My first truth,” he said, “is that I am not a professional politician. I am a businessman with activity in America where I lived for 21 years. I struggled, I made some money,” Kasselakis continued.
“Pirates are not in Koumundourou” he added as a boat passed behind him, saying that “I know the economy and I know it well”.
Referring to Alexis Tsipras, he described him as honest and said that regarding his election to the leadership of SYRIZA, he said that “the fact that I saw that people benefiting from him started to leave or distance themselves from him so as not to be in the frame of the losers”. “I will stand by this honourable man in his most difficult moment,” he said of Alexis Tsipras, recounting that “I saw people who would not have existed without him, waiting to take his place. I went into the presidential election battle unprepared, with half Greek, but a whole soul.”
“It’s always the people who make the miracle. You made me, I am flesh of your flesh,” the SYRIZA president noted of his election, saying he was “stunned by what he described as a “hate attack. “We will have Androulakis sleeping and we will empty the coffers,” he commented, blaming the government, while continuing to say that “and so we could finally deal with the important things.”
“We made the best European candidate list of all the parties,” he described, and “we started to produce positions, not in the air, but costed,” the SYRIZA president noted.
He added: “Today I will tell you the great truths. We are not infallible, but we are making a new beginning with passion and honesty to finally become a modern society. The great truths concern me first and foremost and self-criticism must be brave. All these months an image has been created of me that is not the true image, saying that this image is of a man who didn’t work out.”
“But sometimes I have also contributed to the creation of this image, through over-promotion and inexperience. I apologise for that,” he said on whether he had created the impression of ostentation, adding that “I was not born rich.”
“At first I didn’t have much and then I had everything, Ekali, Athens College. ”Big deal, Stephen, you uprooted yourself to go to the best college in the United States. I can understand that. I went to America and gave it my all. I worked my ass off in the most competitive market in the world. I achieved both my salaries and my bonuses on my own merit,” continued Stefanos Kasselakis.
“And looking back, I say I was lucky, because I experienced both intensely. And because even my last dollar is taxed. That’s where the tax and judicial authorities are relentless,” he added, calling it “cheap party propaganda,” calling him a “crook, while the deadline is June 30,” as the SYRIZA president said, noting that “they are so crooked and so incompetent together” that they have not opened the system for filing their tax returns.
“So that’s why I present my assets here before you, because ultimately it is to you that I answer to the Greek people. You see behind me the data for the whole of 2023,” he said.
He said the assets “concern both me and Tyler,” saying “this is where you hit me. You see that I have a stake in two companies, one company, the foreign one was transferred at the beginning of 2024,” calling on Mitsotakis to present his own figures for 2023 “now, before the European elections. To know how many more properties were added to his Monopoly of properties”.
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“I was a businessman in America, with my own sweat I have made this money ,” he stressed and continued, saying that Mitsotakis acquired 39 properties with his MP’s salary. “Prime Minister, you may have an easy time lying, but there is something called dignity. So I am informing this whole rotten system. I will not allow you to smear me. Your mud is returned to you.”
“Doesn’t anyone in this rotten system ask them where all this comes from? The wolves blame the sheep,” he noted, adding that “sometimes right wins.” He referred to a huge ethical issue, calling it a “wealth declaration-disgrace. I will not only file my tax returns, but I will present all the documents I have requested from the IRS, all my assets, down to the last dollar.”
It should be noted that his speech was scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m., but it began at 8:45.
