64 accused for the slush funds from Siemens

64 defendants in the case of "slush funds", by the proposal of the deputy prosecutor Economic Crime, Galinos Bris, to the judicial council.

In the proposal, which has 2368 pages, are describing the routes of the bribes for the contract No 8002 of the German company with OTE.

The bribes are estimated to have reached at least the 69.942 million Euros, or as much as is the damage of the Greek State, as estimated. The case began to be investigated by the current economic crime prosecutor, Panagiotis Athanasiou in 2006.

Among the defendants, who were proposed by the prosecutor Galen Bris to sit in the dock of the three-member Court of Appeal for Felonies, are including 17 German nationals, while is noted that during the investigation of the case had to open hundreds of bank accounts in order to identify the paths of black money.
The assistant prosecutor of financial crime Mr. Bris ask to be indict:

- 19 defendants for active corruption with the aggravating circumstance of Law 1608/50 on abusers of the State, which is punishable by life in prison, and for money laundering.
- 14 defendants, former executives of OTE for passive bribery, also by the Law for abusers of the State and for money laundering
- 8 defendants, officials from a Consultancy Company, for complicity in simple passive bribery
- 14 defendants, for direct complicity in passive corruption and money laundering
- 8 defendants, for direct complicity in active bribery and money laundering
- 1 defendant for money laundering.
The total cost of the disputed contract is estimated at 236 billion Drachmas and the investigation revealed that large sums of money were used to bribe public officials.
At the same time the No.1 accused for the bribes by the German company, is free and comfortable...