The Truth – ACTUP (Greece)

Its time the truth about ACTUP ΔΡΑΣΕ HELLAS came out as for over a year and a half whereby faced with the truth, the facts and the reality of their actions, they have openly lied, threatened and abused those who have sought to reveal the facts.

The presidents most recent bout of lies (Feb 2011) are highlighted here with links to the facts found on most posts on this blog.

Many of the proof’s required are already online and covered in my latest blog entry which provides links to where the president has openly claimed to be a Doctor and other issues raised : http://fckdupathens.wordpress.com/2010/12/06/then-came-%CE%B8upermalaka-the-creation-of-an-uber-fckwit/

We promised we'd lie steal and blame others, we kept the promise...

ACTUP ΔΡΑΣΕ HELLAS was formed in 1993, originally a HIV/Aids awareness group run by genuine members, activists and people suffering with the illness till 1995. For whatever reason it disappeared till 1999 whereby it was hijacked by two people who had ambitions of their own, who still coincidentally control and have been the source of the majority of problems recently discovered. Kostadis Kaburakis (Κωσταντής Καμπουράκης)  and Chrysa Botsi (Χρυσούλα Μπότση), as well as other members that have since appeared to have elected themselves in charge and carried on with the Organisation, choosing to do so by abusing the name of a once respected organisation and their positions within the Ministries which they were connected to which allowed them the security and ability to act with impunity for nearly a decade.

From 2002 – 2010 they managed comfortably to lie and deceive their way into funding which they then treated as their own, provided false documentation and bogus receipts for projects, illegally had members claiming to be Doctors, whilst failing to provide any accountability for their actions secure in the knowledge that their Ministries, contacts and friends would all cover it up. Two members of the Board of Directors, (K Kaburakis and Andreas Grilleas) having pretended to be Doctors for nearly ten years, have illegally deceived people with HIV/Aids into trusting them and gained access to highly sensitive medical records through working for KEELPNO (the Greek CDC), Andreas Siggros Hospital (the main HIV/Aids Hospital in Athens), and by running non legal projects which jeopardized the confidentiality and safety of those who sought help.

They then having put themselves in a position to Blackmail people with these highly sensitive results accuse others who neither had the opportunity or the access to such records of committing such crimes. C Botsi and K Kaburakis, the Financial Director and President of this NGO who are known to be in a relationship, also work for the same ministry which employs them and funds them… Subsequently several receipts from the Island where C Botsi has her summer-house were handed in to an Investigation concerning financial Irregularities whereby the outcome revealed that the documentation and accountability of such evidence by ACTUP was neither satisfactory or valid, and as a result they have to pay back over 170,000.00 euro’s to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (YΔΑΣ).

The best thing is that we've lied to everyone for so long, even we forget what we've been telling people...

K Kaburakis and ACTUP for the last year have denied such an Investigation was ever ongoing and subsequently filed an illegal court case against myself to try to suppress the information by claiming that my report on SKAI Radio was false and to claim I didn’t actually work there. In part the broadcast was wrong as I estimated that they had stolen about 50,000.00 euro’s, 120,000.00 euro’s short of what was actually discovered by the Investigators at ΥΔΑΣ. Since IKA have judged that ACTUP are also guilty of their Legal obligations with regards to my contract which subject to their own Investigation (371 / 14 / 06 / 2010), states that I was employed with ACTUP ΔΡΑΣΕ HELLAS for the duration I stated and they have been found guilty of failing their legal responsibilities, withholding my Insurance to which I knew all along, contrary to them stating that my Broadcast highlighting that they were under Investigation was lies, and that I have been holding them to ransom by claiming I worked there.

Justice in part is now being served at least, and with each new month brings new news. The details and all relevant documents discovered by myself and those who have sought to expose these criminals has now been handed over to the respective authorities and the outcome will be shortly decided upon. Since then other members of the Board of Directors, Kostantinos Zikas, Andreas Grilleas and George Papachristos have all tried to cover this up, and along with ACTUP ΔΡΑΣΕ HELLAS have filed illegal Lawsuits against those such as myself for exposing this information, and have been proven guilty of stealing funds which they have lied and deceived people about for the last ten years while they tried to persecute me and others for claiming that the story highlighted on the Radio broadcast was false.

For over a year now myself and several concerned colleagues & friends have been fighting to highlight several serious matters about this Non Governmental Organisation (NGO), despite being threatened, falsely sued for exposing the truth and several Ministries and News agencies trying to cover it up, and more recently slandered for doing so.

We did nothing wrong till we got caught...Now it turns out that stealing Tax payers money and pretending to be Doctors is against the Law!

Well, you can’t hide from the truth, freedom of speech and the facts, over a year and a half of fighting to expose those involved has proven that, and so far everything they themselves have done has exposed them further for the criminals they are. Should they like the chance to openly debate these issues, then this is an open site whereby we look forward to engaging with the subject matter we now have, we don’t lock ourselves away behind hidden groups slandering innocent people, denying people the right to free speech, claiming to be something that we are not, and we don’t fail to provide documentation to validate our claims and we neither make accusations which we can’t prove unlike Kostadis Kaburakis and the other members of ACTUP have done for over a year now to ourselves, and for over ten years to everyone else.

Several online articles and National newspapers have confirmed what evidence we have gathered and many authorities involved have now also begun the steady process of Justice being carried out. It started out with Kostadis Kaburakis putting myself and a volunteer in a position whereby he expected us to fraudulently create documents to defraud the Ministry of Foreign Affairs here in Greece. We refused and upon returning to work some days later to discuss the matter with the rest of the Board of Directors discovered that they had changed the locks and denied us access to our place of work.

I was already owed money for several months and had been lied to and treated appallingly throughout my duration working there as it was. Having never been paid on time and forced to starve and nearly lose my house on several occasions whilst they robbed money from a number of sources to use as their own, enough was enough.

Myself and a volunteer (Christina Chorianopoulou) who was the backbone of ACTUP during my experience working their, had also seen a number of problems and between us we decided to tackle them to try to improve the way the organisation was being run. We first discovered that funds from a Jennifer Lopez concert had seemingly gone missing and having been told by K Kaburakis that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs also owed us money, it seemed strange to be in a position whereby our electricity and phones were being cut off, the Refuge centre next door had no water for over a month, forcing the people under our protection to suffer unnecessarily whilst we seemed helpless to do anything, and as we had a Lawyer acting on behalf of the Landlady threatening us with legal action for nearly a Years worth of Rent that was due. After a meeting between C Chorianopoulou and (YDAS) the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, we were informed that ACTUP had actually failed to provide any receipts or documentation for over 5 years.

We pushed K Kaburakis for these documents as we needed them to be resolved so we could actually discover what state our finances truly were in, whereby he claimed that they’d already lost the receipts, the previous accountant had caused them problems and had run off, as well as a number of other lies to try to absolve himself from the reality he now faced himself in. After two weeks or so of pushing him, he turned up to work with several carrier bags full of faded, old, illegible,  non valid receipts. After we’d been through them and discovered how bad they were, he then asked us to help him fabricate a number of receipts to cover up what we estimated to be about 50,000 euro’s.

We refused and after a heated argument between ourselves, whereby we explained in no uncertain terms that was he’d asked of us, and what he’d brought us was neither valid or acceptable, we left to discuss it further. The next few days we tried in vain to speak to the Financial Director, C Botsi whose job it was anyway, however the opinion of the other member we could discuss it with, K Zikas was that it was none of our business and that we weren’t welcome any more doing what we did. At this point they changed the locks and the fight begun. Since K Kaburakis has claimed that the receipts were interfered with and that ACTUP had to re request several of these which is why it took so long for them to provide evidence to YDAS. Having been witness to the actual receipts at YDAS along with several of my colleagues who have been fighting this, we can all verify that the very same bullsh*t receipts he provided for us for cat food, dog food, sun tan lotion, champagne, trips to their summer-house, were in fact the very same ones they’d handed into YDAS, the ones he has many times denied, stating that he is ‘no English lord’ and has no problem accounting for what they chose fit to do with you, the tax payers hard-earned money. As it happens, yes you did have to worry about it and your blatant disrespect for the people who made you what you were, the ones who tried to help and those who funded you, who you in turn stole from, want to see the Justice you claim to be so eager to see.

Had you have ever turned up and presented yourself to the many trials at which you or others failed to attend, we wouldn’t have to still be listening to your lies, however as with everything – all things good come to those who wait, and how we wait…

The articles and many reports upon ACTUP ΔΡΑΣΕ HELLAS :

SKAI radio ran a broadcast (In Greece) detailing the basics of what we had discovered already and this begun the ball rolling.

SKAI Radio Broadcast – 16th May, 2009 – (In Greek). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRTbXitqrWE&feature=channel_page

First Story in Kathermini – 28-10-2009 – (In Greek). http://news.kathimerini.gr/4dcgi/_w_articles_ell_2_28/10/2009_335153

Verification of the demand by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs :
http://kallia-xa.blogspot.com/2010/06/17070780-actup-hellas.html
An English summary of the article covered in the National Newspaper & previous summary :
http://kallia-xa.blogspot.com/2010/05/odyssey-of-english-citizen.html http://kallia-xa.blogspot.com/2009/11/act-up-drase-hellas-how-non.html
As reported in Elethrotypia 23rd, May 2010 – (In Greek).
http://www.enet.gr/?i=news.el.ellada&id=165379
http://www.enet.gr/?i=news.el.ellada&id=165380

More Information will be posted shortly revealing the extent of the lies and deception deliberately carried out by these individuals, as will all relevant documentation to prove what has been discovered to be true by those who fought for Justice to prevail.

Latest News :
30th September, 2010. Confirmation has arrived from IKA (371 / 14 / 06 / 2010), stating that the Investigation surrounding ACTUP failing to uphold their legal obligation to my Insurance (IKA)whilst working there has been decided upon and that they have been found guilty and are now being subject to prosecution for withholding my Insurance and failing to submit the respective details during my contract of Employment.

Other links covering this subject can be found here :

http://fckdupathens.wordpress.com/2011/05/09/penal-investigations-underway/

http://fckdupathens.wordpress.com/2011/04/15/is-doctor-dumbass-in/

http://fckdupathens.wordpress.com/2011/03/23/and-the-farce-goes-on/

http://fckdupathens.wordpress.com/2011/02/18/the-never-ending-lie/

http://fckdupathens.wordpress.com/2010/12/06/then-came-%CE%B8upermalaka-the-creation-of-an-uber-fckwit/

http://fckdupathens.wordpress.com/2010/12/03/who-is-responsible-for-human-rights-and-global-health-issues/

http://fckdupathens.wordpress.com/2010/10/19/staff-wanted-at-the-greek-cdc-people-with-no-criminal-background-neednt-apply/

http://fckdupathens.wordpress.com/2010/11/30/world-aids-day-not-just-a-fight-against-aids-but-clearly-the-corruption-and-neglect-that-runs-rife-within-this-sector/

http://fckdupathens.wordpress.com/2010/12/03/who-is-responsible-for-human-rights-and-global-health-issues/

http://fckdupathens.wordpress.com/2010/09/29/so-whats-fckdup-about-keelpno-keel-then/

http://fckdupathens.wordpress.com/2010/09/11/so-why-fckdup-athens/

http://fckdupathens.wordpress.com/2010/07/03/how-to-create-your-own-ngo-in-greece/

External Sources & World media :

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12294232