Gifts, Gadgets and Greece: Inside a Huawei Lobbying Campaign | NYT

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  1. Τελικά αυτό ήταν το άρθρο στο οποίο αναφερόταν το [πρωτοσέλιδο στα Νεα](https://www.frontpages.gr/d/20230928/2/%CE%A4%CE%B1-%CE%9D%CE%AD%CE%B1)

    Γενικά δεν φαίνεται να υπάρχει κάποιο ιδιαίτερα ενοχοποιητικό στοιχείο ειδικά σε σύγκριση με προηγούμενα σκάνδαλα και τα ποσά είναι αρκετά μικρά. Μια προνομιακή επικοινωνία με την Huawei φαίνεται να υπήρχε αλλά φαντάζομαι ο Άδωνις μπορεί να την δικαιολογήσει ως επικοινωνία με οποιαδήποτε εταιρεία του ιδιωτικού τομέα εμπλέκεται σε σημαντικά έργα υποδομής.

    Πιο ενδιαφέρουσα πάντως η ύπαρξη προκοταβολικού [damage control άρθρου](https://www.tanea.gr/print/2023/09/28/opinions/o-adonis-oi-lithouanikes-ypoklopes-kai-i-fake-dorodokia/) (το προαναφερθέν ρεπορτάζ των Νέων, [χωρίς paywall](https://www.in.gr/2023/09/28/politics/paraskinio/o-adonis-kataskopeytiko-thriler-kai-fake-dorodokia/)).

  2. > The contacts, identified as Greek government advisers, were set to provide Huawei with something valuable: a document outlining government contracts and “first priority projects” that the company might want to work on in the country. Huawei managers discussed giving the advisers a Huawei Mate XS smartphone, the company’s GT 2 smartwatch and wine, according to internal text messages and other documents reviewed by The New York Times.

    > The exchange was part of more than 120 messages and summaries of internal Huawei communications provided to The Times by a person working for a European government that investigated the company. The materials, which identified the contacts as government officials, offer a rare look at how Huawei tried to cultivate relationships with high-ranking figures in Greece, a small but important country for the company, and pushed the limits of Greek rules that restrict gifts to civil servants and government ministers.

    > Huawei employees discussed how Mr. Georgiadis, who was the minister of development at the time, received devices from the company while working as a government official.

    > “Adonis needs two more watches. GT Pro. He loved it,” Mr. Tamvakidis wrote in October 2020. Later that month, Mr. Georgiadis was photographed wearing what appeared to be a Huawei watch.

    > In a 2021 exchange, Huawei employees discussed replacing a broken phone for Mr. Georgiadis’s son.

    > “Adonis is a special case,” Mr. Tamvakidis wrote.

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