Athens 2004 head Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki said Thursday that the audit report for the year 2001, which claims the Games organizing committee (ATHOC) did not follow proper hiring procedures in many cases, awarded tenders without signing contracts, and had several thousand euros in unaccounted payments, did not paint an accurate picture of the organizers’ work before the Athens 2004 Summer Olympic Games.
Reuters reports that Angelopoulos-Daskalaki was flanked by lawyers and her chief financial officer for the Games, and said every euro would be accounted for when the organizers close the books at the end of the year.
She told reporters, “no one can doubt that all our actions were in accordance with the strict legal framework, which for the first time in the history of the Games was based both on our national legislation and the EU’s legal platform”.
The reports for the years 2002, 2003 and 2004 are now being prepared and will be ready in the coming months, said officials.
Angelopoulos-Daskalaki said, “we will leave no doubt hanging in the air over our actions’ legality and transparency, full stop”.
