Noose tightens in Vgenopoulos case
DISGRACED former Central Bank Governor Christodoulos Christodoulou was Friday charged with new offences stemming from a one-million-euro upfront fee for ten years’ advisory services paid...
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Prosecutors preparing case against Vgenopoulos
The payment of €1mln to former central banker Christodoulos Christodoulou by Greek shipowner Michalis Zolotas in 2007, for which Christodoulou served five months in jail...
Greek bankers claim no wrongdoing over Laiki debacle
The statement given by Laiki Bank’s former strongman, Greek financier Andreas Vgenopoulos, will be studied and assessed despite his own profession of innocence, Attorney-general Costas...
Our View: AG took wise route in pursuit of Vgenopoulos
FORMER Laiki Bank strongman Andreas Vgenopoulos will, at long last, next Tuesday be questioned by Greek investigators in connection with misleading investors in Cyprus, a...
Our View: Former Laiki execs making a mockery of Greek and Cypriot legal systems
WE DO NOT know how Greece’s judicial system operates, but appearances suggest that it is not taken very seriously by Greek nationals. Certainly not by...
Greece orders extradition of ex-Laiki execs Bouloutas and Foros
GREECE’S highest court on Friday ordered the extradition to Cyprus of two former Greek bankers whose arrest was sought after they failed to appear before...
Laiki loans given out without enough collateral says report
Significant discrepancies existed between loans paid out by now-defunct Laiki Bank in Greece and collateral backing them, according to a 2012 report by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC),...
Our View: AKEL’s distortion of the truth at its best
IT WAS quite astonishing that AKEL claimed the findings of the investigation into the funds paid out by Focus Maritime Corporation had vindicated the party....
Our View: AKEL using pretext of human rights to protect wrongdoers
THE ALLEGED protection of human rights is often used as an excuse not to clamp down on law breaking. We still remember how, several years...
DISY admits to receiving further Focus funding
By Elias Hazou Ruling DISY leader Averof Neophytou has admitted his party received hundreds of thousands of euro from Focus Maritime Corporation to subsidise air...
