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Since 1890 - Ánthrōpos métron - 2 Septémvrios 1920 - 30 Lepta
A corruption scandal is unfolding in the Prefecture of Nestorio, in the Grand Duchy of Tiburania, close to the border with Remion and the Papal State, as anonymous sources have stated that a series of public works started in the prefecture during the previous administration of the Radical Union, before the war, have been attributed illegally, to companies that were owned by friends and close acquaintances of the then and current prefect, Loukas Lambrakis. The Nestorio Prefecture was at that time fully neighbouring the Kingdom of Remion, as it was still owning the coastal areas and many of the works that were illegally attributed had to do with the necessary infrastructure for trading with Remion.
The leak of documents state that prefect Loukas Lambrakis has contracted a ghost company named Agyraspides to build a double railroad between the town of Nestorio and the Remis border, which was supposed to continue towards the city of Fonda. The said company exists only on paper and to build the railroad, it sub-let the building contract to a real construction company, Marousi SA which constructed the 35km railroad with two delays and received for it a total of 15 Million Denari. The total cost for the government was 21 million, the difference of 6 million going into the accounts of the Agyraspides company.
The similar issues like that were observed in the eponymous town, where Mayor Marius Ionescu has condemned the Prefect for abusing his powers to force him to sign a 10 million Denari contract for the paving of the streets in the city centre of Nestorio to a company owned by the Prefect's brother. Again, as in the previously mentioned railroad construction project, no auction was organised and no bids were submitted, with the Prefect using his discretionary powers to grant the contracts to the companies of his choosing.
Many of those scandalous affairs have been kept secret first by the extreme influence Prefect Loukas Lambrakis had over the Nestorio Prefecture before the war, and later, when Tyrrhenia entered the war and the border with Remion became a front in the Great War, many documents disappeared or were lost as the fighting came extremely close to the city of Nestorio. The leaks concerning all those scandals come from some of the previous clerks to the Prefecture which have preferred to remain anonymous. The news came to the ears of the current Minister of Finance, Stefanos Fotakos, and the greater National Party led cabinet, which have ordered an investigation not only on the Nestorio Prefecture and the financial wrongdoings of Prefect Loukas Lambrakis, but also ordered a general audit for the whole kingdom to uncover other such heinous acts. Loukas Lambrakis has been preemptively arrested by the Astynomia (Police), and stands accused of corruption, influence trafficking, abuse in power and for showing favouritism towards felons.
The news of this scandal has been so breathtaking that even his majesty, has been horrified by it: "I cannot simply understand how state clerks, which are in their positions to serve the people that have elected them are using that position to build huge wealth and go as far as to form their prefectures into their personal domains, reigning as some form of modern day robber barons. No, I trust the authorities of the kingdom and the government that they will make it so that everyone who has abused their position will pay and will face the fullest extent of the law," stated his royal majesty, Roman V Argyros, the King of the Tyrrhenians and Megas Doux of the Tiburanians.
"It is indeed a saddening affair, but it is an open secret that the Radical Union, which has government the nation for ten years before the Great War, only to give up the administration when they entered blindsided in the War and observed that it wasn't the easy victory they hoped for, have been a corrupt bunch for years and have actively worked to dismantle the justice system so that they can get away with absolutely anything. In the past years, the people did woke up and saw the ensemble of the rotten corruption that filled the halls of administration not only in Kastoria but also in the Prefectures from their days, but it is too late, the the deeds have been made. Now, we will not stand behind and we will work to begin a nation-wide audit of everything that the liberal plague of the Radical Union has touched to see how much they managed to get wealthy by literally stealing tax-payer money. I will promise everyone that the culprits will be deferred to justice and their tainted touch will be cleansed," stated Prime Minister Haris Sarrilis.
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