On the occasion of a publication in an Athens newspaper, under the title "Holy" business in Tinos: Bars of gold with offerings to the Virgin Mary", referring to the Panhellenic Holy Foundation of Evangelistria of Tinos (P.I.E.T.), the Steering Committee….
of the Foundation announces the following :
1. On recommendation of the Holy Foundation (1823) to this day all kinds of valuable tributes of the faithful are periodically sold at Public Auction. The relevant financial transactions are approved annually by the Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs, which by law supervises the P.I.I.E.T..
1. On recommendation of the Holy Foundation (1823) to this day all kinds of valuable tributes of the faithful are periodically sold at Public Auction. The relevant financial transactions are approved annually by the Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs, which by law supervises the P.I.I.E.T..
2. The faithfull, who leave their precious tributes in the "tribute box" of P.I.I.E.T., they know, and many declare it in writing, that their offered tributes will be disposed of, in order to finance the multi-faceted and multi-level social and charitable work of the Panhellenic Holy Foundation of Evangelistria and for this charitable purpose they are donating.
3. The highlighting of the subject as an allegedly speculative and even irregular activity, which was even supposed to be happening "undercover" and was accidentally revealed, it is obviously the result of bad information on the part of the author of the specific article.
4. The only fact is that during the admission procedure at the airport "El. Venizelos"
the transported cargo was declared to Customs, which was intended for P.I.I.E.T. and additional import documents were requested from the contractor, who had undertaken with a legal assignment procedure and a relevant contract with P.I.I.E.T. the recasting of the tributes in a laboratory abroad and their return to the Foundation, because only with this certification process could the bars be sold to the Bank of Greece, with which only the Holy Institution, as NPDD has the right to trade. The documents were completed and delivered to the Foundation two days later. The contracts of P.I.E.T. with the selected contractor were assigned with the legal procedure and are accessible to everyone, as they were legally published on the "DIAUGEIA" website. consequently, this is not a "shock revelation", but for a legitimate job assignment process, which is obvious, known and observed for many years.
5. The Holy Institution, as is universally known, who had been taken hostage by the Germans 1940 he offered all his valuables and property for the National Struggle. Today, Under other conditions, proceeds with the sale of its assets, to relieve hundreds of pressing human problems and difficulties, to which it provides support, and meet its financial obligations, as following unfortunate decisions of previous Governing Committees it is called today, after the finality of court decisions, to pay off his old financial obligations to Organizations.
6. Following these, we are sure that the author of this particular publication and those website owners who rushed to reproduce it uncritically and without torture, they will restore things to their proper dimension.
7. The faith and trust of the faithful People towards the Holy Institution is never shaken, because he knows that this works legally and transparently, without ever being accused of managing the offering of the "faithful" and offerings of the faithful, which as a blessing and counter-gift of gratitude he returns to the Greek society with works of love and benevolence.
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