Greek judicial authorities dropped a felony charge against the head of the country's statistics agency, putting an end to an investigation into accusations that he artificially inflated the country's debt figures, a court official said. A veteran IMF statistician, Andreas Georgiou was appointed head of ELSTAT in 2010 in an effort to restore the credibility of Greek statistics a few months after the country's debt crisis erupted. In 2013, an economics crime prosecutor formally slapped felony charges on Georgiou and two other employees of the Greek statistics agency on accusations that they falsified the country's 2009 fiscal data.
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