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Former Greek statistics chief found guilty of breach of duty

Former Greek statistics chief found guilty of breach of duty

Greece's former chief statistician was found guilty on Tuesday of breach of duty for failing to inform the statistics agency's board of his actions on fiscal data.

An appeals court handed Andreas Georgiou, a former International Monetary Fund economist, a two-year suspended sentence for sending EU statistics agency Eurostat 2009 Greek fiscal data without telling the board.

The prosecutor said Georgiou's actions displayed "substantial moral disdain". Georgiou, who stepped down in 2015 after five years running ELSTAT through the height of the Greek and euro zone debt crisis, has denied the charges.

Source: reuters.com

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