Εισαγωγικό κείμενο
- 30 Apr 2023
- economy
Apart from the ballots for the parliamentary elections, a well-known deputy mayor of the municipality of Athens will be found, who is under investigation for felonies, based on the conclusion of the Money Laundering Authority, according to which he could not justify the amount of 800,000 euros.
It is noted that the conclusion has been submitted to the Athens Prosecutor's Office for several days, before the deadly tragedy of Tempe.
In particular, according to dikastiko.gr, the investigation by the Anti-Money Laundering Authority, under the head of the Deputy Prosecutor of the Supreme Court, Haralambos Vourliotis, was completed a few days ago and the relevant finding identified that in the declared incomes of the deputy mayor , an inability to justify an amount of around 800,000 euros was detected.
In short, the elected official failed to justify the source, i.e. the origin of this very large amount of money that appeared in his income, in the audit that was carried out.
Immediately after the Authority's conclusion was drawn up, it was forwarded to the Athens District Attorney's Office, with the auditors describing any felony offenses, such as money laundering and tax evasion.
The procedure from now on will be initiated by the Prosecutor's Office, which, based on the Authority's conclusion, will carry out an investigation to establish the possible commission of offenses and will probably call the deputy mayor for an explanation.
Subsequently, the public prosecutor's office will decide whether or not to initiate criminal prosecution.
The existence of the finding, however, blocked the intention of the vice-mayor to jump from the local government to the central political stage and specifically to be exposed as a candidate for parliament.
And this despite the fact that the possibility seemed strongly possible, even if there had not even been a leak from the political party, but it had been expressed - and publicly - as his intention.
