“The ‘Tsipras’ law on foreign companies was a mistake,” SYRIZA president Stefanos Kasselakis told Mega tonight, speaking on the station’s main newscast and answering questions about lobster boats.

He added that if it was passed to beat Kyriakos Mitsotakis, it is something he does not agree with.

He argued that the law was made for the “black” money of Greek politicians abroad and not for the “clean” money of expatriates.

He said that he will explain to the Justice Department if called upon – “and if necessary, I will pay the fine” he said.

The SYRIZA president said he has no longer held shares in foreign companies for a year.

“I do not wish to be filed,” he said.

In saying this, the SYRIZA president equated his dismissal from the companies he was “running” with his withdrawal from them, while it is known – and by the lawsuit he filed last April – that he still maintains a shareholding in them, which is also prohibited by the law passed under SYRIZA.

“People are fed up with gaslighting. Think about what they have been trying to accuse me of from the beginning.

That I was stupid, that I was a lifestyle. That the 35-year-old expat Stefanos Kasselakis is an interloper.

A lot of concern from Mr. Greenberg,” he also said in the interview.

According to him, “at some point we have to wake up.

Does the Greek citizen know the whereabouts of Mr Mitsotakis? It is time for the politician to be a servant of the citizen.”

Kasselakis was also asked about the recent statements of former Justice Minister Kontonis that under SYRIZA a sub-ministry had been set up in Maximou.

“The cycle of 15-19 is closed.

“New faces will enter the new cycle of SYRIZA,” he said, and when asked if this means that he washes his hands of Pappas and Polakis, he replied, “Both of them enjoy my trust.”

Responding to a question about his relations with the former party president, Kasselakis said “I do not consider Alexis Tsipras an underminer” and expressed his certainty that he will not challenge him after the European elections.

“Alexis Tsipras is a former president of SYRIZA and he has every right to express his views,” he said.